"As Planets Faithful be": The Higher Law of Science in Emerson's Antislavery Lectures.
Nineteenth-Century Prose 2003, Spring-Fall, 30, 1-2
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Emerson's antislavery lectures of 1844-1863 would seem an unlikely place to look for Emerson's scientific ideology, but in fact these lectures are some of that ideology's most compelling expressions. To combat the American crime of slavery, Emerson turned to evolutionary time and planetary space, drawing on the constitution of the universe itself to demonstrate the flaws in the Constitution of the United States. Emerson's "higher law" was fundamentally based in his belief that the physical universe is the embodiment of moral truth, governed by the laws of nature and of nature's God. Thus when he turned to higher law to combat slavery, Emerson's goal is to swing the power of the universe itself to the side of social justice. **********
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