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Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Volume 2

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Contents - History - Self-Reliance - Compensation - Spritual Laws - Love - Friendship - Prudence - Heroism - The Over-Soul - Circles - Intellect - Art

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the sensual bright, etc., from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the moral fair; that is, again, to contrive to cut clean off this upper surface so thin as one end,without an other end. The soul says, Eat; ' the body would feast. The soul says, The man and woman shall be one flesh and one soul; ' the body would join the flesh only. The soul says, Have dominion over all things to the ends of virtue; 'the body would have the power over things to its own ends.

The soul strives amain to live and work through all things. It would be the only fact. All things shall be added unto it, -- power, pleasure, knowledge, beauty. The particular man aims to be somebody; to set up for himself to truck and higgle for a private good; and, in particulars, to ride that he may ride to dress that he may be dressed; to eat that he may eat; and to govern, that he may be seen. Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature, the sweet, without the other side, the bitter.

This dividing and detaching is steadily counteracted. Up to this day it must be owned no projector has had the smallest success. The parted water reunites behind our hand. Pleasure is taken out of pleasant things, profit out of profitable things, power out of strong things, as soon as we

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