December 25, 2008
The child who refuses to pollute its little lips with a lie, and the archangel who refuses with indignation to rebel in the armies of heaven against the Most High, act alike in obedience to a law which pervades all intelligent beings. The law is the Moral Sense; a rule coextensive and coeval with Mind. It derives its existence from the eternal character of the Deity, of which we spoke above; and seems of itself to imply, and therefore to prove his Existence…Whence comes this strong universal feeling that approves or abhors actions? Manifestly not from matter, which is altogether unmoved by it, and the connection of which with it is a thing absurd – but from a mind, of which it is the essence. That Mind is God.
Emerson - Journals Volume I
Posted by amin at December 25, 2008 12:52 PM