...describe the nature of the moral laws that give rise to it. In the first place, these laws are universal. "They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance." Thus in the human soul "there is a justice whose retributions are instant and entire." Those who do a good deed...

...are destined to achieve it.80 Emerson echoed Cicero and the Stoics concerning natural law. He wrote: "The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight...perfection of the laws of the soul. . . . [These laws] are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance. . . . Man fallen into superstition,...

...thought; yet we read them hourly in each other's faces, in each other's actions, in oar own remorse. —- The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soal. These laws execute themselves. — As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the...

...invite the Harvard Divinity School seniors and faculty — to what he considered the crucial point: "The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul"; while "the doors of the Temple stand open, night and day, before every man, and the oracles of this...

...Address": "The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. . . . The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight...time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance." 103 For Emerson, the Over-Soul, the Reason, Eros, and Love represent a manifestation of the divine...