名词解释题

Oversoul

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Oversoul, is a concept by Ralph Waldo Emerson introduced in his 1841 essay by the same name, meaning “over abiding presence”. It refers to an impersonal force that is eternal moral, harmonious, and beneficent in tendency. Emerson believed that there should be an emotional communication between an individual soul and tee universal “oversoul”, since the over-soul is an all-pervading power from which all things come from and of which all is a part. One of the tendencies of the “over-soul” is to express itself in form hence the world of nature as an emanation of the world of spirit.

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