The Sovereignty of Ethics
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Description: A later work of Emerson's (1878) showing his move away from the radical individualism of his younger years and towards a spirituality of relationships.
Sovereignty of Ethics "The Sovereignty of Ethics" by , of May, 1878. Vol. X. 12. THESE rules were writ in human heart To plant thy shrivelled pedantry SINCE the discovery of Oersted that galvanism and electricity and magnetism are only forms of one and the same force, and convertible each into the other, we have continually suggested to us a larger generalization: that each of the great departments of Nature - chemistry, vegetation, the animal life -exhibits the same laws on a different plane; that the intellectual and moral worlds are analogous to the material. There is a kind of latent omniscience not only in every man but in every particle. That convertibility we so admire in plants and animal structures, whereby the repairs and the ulterior uses are subserved, when one part is wounded or deficient, by another; this self-help and self-creation proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design, - works in a lobster or a miteworm as a wise man would if imprisoned in that poor form. 'T is the effort of God, of the Supreme Intellect, in the extremest frontier of his universe.
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