Mark Twain and Human Nature

Index

I n d e x Adams, John, 268 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 16, 18, 101, 103, 104–13 passim, 122, 125, 127, 130, 131, 140, 141–63 passim, 164, 173 Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (Twain), 18, 71, 78, 79, 87–97 passim, 102, 151, 157, 159, Age of Reason, The (Paine), 13, 16, Aguinaldo (Wildman), 252 Aguinaldo, Emilio, 252, 255 Alta California, San Francisco (newspaper ), 36, 41, 42, 45, 46, 47, 48 American Claimant, The (Twain), 25, 197 American Scene, The (Henry James), 30, 111 Anderson, Douglas, 158 Anthropometry (Quetelet), 165 Aquinas, Thomas, 260 Arcadia (Stoppard), 262 Arendt, Hannah, 252 Arnold, Matthew, 188 “Around the World” (Twain; letters), 66 “As Regards Patriotism” (Twain), 250 Atlantic Monthly (magazine), 78, 97, 130, 253 Austen, Jane, 82 “Autobiography” (Twain), 79, 106, 196 “Autobiography of Eve” (Twain), 276, 277 280 Baender, Paul, 243 Baetzhold, Howard, 62, 98, 116, 180, 181, 188, Baldwin, James Mark, 268, 268n32 Baring-Gould, S., 153 Bassano, Jacopo, 124 Beard, Daniel, 181 Beecher, Henry Ward, 17, 42 Bellamy, Gladys, 115 Bergson, Henri, 34, 35, 261 Berlin, Isaiah, 279 Bixby, Horace, 133 Blair, Walter, 114, 116, 143, 153, 154 Bliss, Elisha, 45, 46, 59 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 199, 252 Book of Mormon, 69 Boorstin, Daniel, 31 Bowen, Will, 83 Boyensen, H. H., 118, 120 “Brace of Brief Lectures on Science, A” (Twain), 62 Branch, Edgar M., 33, 34, 131 British Quarterly Review (magazine), 119 “Broadway Bridge, The” (Twain), 36 2 8 3 Brooks, Van Wyck, 13 Browne, J. Ross, 109 Browning, Robert, 78 Buckle, Henry Thomas, 164, 165, 167–71, 186, 254 Budd, Louis J., 31, 76, 77, 119, 181, 200, 245 Buffalo Express (newspaper), 59, 142 Burke, Edmund, 189, 246 Burke, Kenneth, 7, 7n6, 27, 223 Burlingame, Anson, 41 Burrough, J. H., 25 Bushnell, Horace, 17 “Californian’s Tale, The” (Twain), 275n41 Calvin, John, 4 Camfield, Gregg, 14, 97, 99 Carlyle, Thomas, 18, 118, 143 Carus, Paul, 261 Caspar Hauser (von Feuerbach), 110 Cather, Willa, 160 “Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The” (Twain), 37–39 Century Magazine, 98, 207 Chamberlain, Joseph, 250 Chambers Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Arts (magazine), 63 “Character of Man, The” (Twain; speech), 133, 147, 171 Cheney, Dick, 2 Christ, Jesus, 198 “Christmas Fireside: The Story of the Bad Little Boy That Bore a Charmed Life, The” (Twain), 95 “Chronicle of Young Satan, The” (Twain), 267, 271 Circumstance, 114–16, 199, 214–15, 235– 36, 255–56; as principle in evolution 233, 253–54 Clemens, Clara, 2, 118, 174, 270 Clemens, Jean, 240, 270 Clemens, Langdon, 4, 66 Clemens, Olivia Langdon, 4, 12, 17, 60– 65, 66, 71, 72, 77, 238, 270, 271, 275–81 passim Clemens, Orion, 11, 65 Clemens, Samuel L. See Twain, Mark Clemens, Olivia Susan (Susy), 12, 118, 224, 240, 276 Collins, Wilkie, 78 Colonel Sellers (Twain; play), 78, 83 Colonel Sellers as a Scientist (Twain; play), 273 Comte, Auguste, 167 Confidence-Man, The (Melville), 22 Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, A (Twain), 79, 90, 103, 120, 131, 162, 164, 166n28, 170, 171, 172–88 passim, 190–95, 242 Conrad, Joseph, 195, 196 Conscience, 27, 29, 96–103; as socially constructed, 154. See also Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut, The Conway, Moncure, 105 Cook, Captain James, 40 Coon, Ben, 37 Cooper, James Fenimore, 163 Cord, Mary Ann, 84, 85, 86 “Corn Pone Opinions” (Twain), 100, 235, 248, 250, 255, 278 Crane, Susan, 84, 160n20, 232 Crane, Theodore, 84, 160n20 Criminalité comparée, La (Tarde), 250 Croker, Richard, 246 Crowds. See Herd mentality Crusoe’s Island: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander Selkirk (Browne), 109 Cummings, Sherwood, 14, 17, 62, 64, 187, 191, 195, 232, 266 “Curiosities of California, The” (Twain; proposed lecture title), 65, 66 “Curious Republic of Gondour, The” (Twain), 83 Curti, Merle, 9 Custom. See Habit; Training “Czar’s Soliloquy, The” (Twain), 251 “Dandy Frightening the Squatter, The” (Twain), 8, 30, 32–33 Darwin, Charles, 14, 17, 63, 68, 97, 254 [Date 1601] Conversation, as it Was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors (Twain), 79 Dawkins, Richard, 106, 107 “Death of Jean, The,” 240 Defoe, Daniel, 110 Deism, 13, 62, 187, 195. See also Paine, Thomas Descent of Man, The (Darwin), 17, 63, 68 Determinism 10, 166–68, 170, 190–92, 2 8 4 I n d e x 195, 228, 232, 236–37, 242–43, 249, 256, 265–66 DeVoto, Bernard, 146, 201...