over-soul”, the belief that mankind is united through very similar

beliefs through this “over-soul”. Our instinctive actions in

making moral choices are all part of this over-soul. This over-soul exists

universally among men and is the basis of deriving the basic laws of

government. The idea of the over-soul is evident in and greatly influences

religion and faith. It is seen in the inherent morals of all men,

therefore there is truth to the existence of the over-soul.

Emerson writes of the over-soul; “…that Unity, that Over-soul,

within which every man’s particular being is contained and made one

with all other; that common heart, of which all sincere conversation is

the worship, to which all right action is submission; that overpowering

reality which confutes our tricks and talents, and constrains every one to

pass for what he is, and to speak from his character, and not from his

tongue, and which evermore tends to pass into our thought and hand, and

become wisdom, and virtue, and power, and beauty”(52).

With this, Emerson says that the common instinct instilled in man lets him

see the truth for himself. This reality found from the

universally among men and is the basis of deriving the basic laws of

within which every man’s particular being is contained and made one

man”(53). He admits that the over-soul can not be defined nor

to these self-realized true answers and oppose anything that would want to

justice. Their desire to oppose that which forcibly limited their freedom

moral values, seeing truth in the idea that all men deserved freedom and

uniquely define man, are what separates us from the rest of the animal

“The soul circumscribes all things”(53). We are never away from

It is true that all men have certain inherent morals. These morals that

“good” or “bad” are too vague and ambiguous, yet

become wisdom, and virtue, and power, and beauty”(52).

between our heads and the infinite heavens, so there is no bar or wall in

over-soul, is this constant truth that remains with man, and is always

intent and purpose as our laws of freedom and justice.

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