...balances itself. Take what figure you will, its exact value, nor more nor less, still returns to you. Every secret is told, every crime is punished, every...rewarded, every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty. What we call retribution is the universal necessity by which the whole appears wherever a part appears....

...universe" (EL2, 333). The law of compensation thus punishes and rewards, as this avowal makes plain. "Every secret is told; every crime is punished; every...rewarded; every wrong redressed in silence and certainty" (£13, 145). This is not to say that punishments and rewards are meted out according to the rule of...

...balances itself. Take what figure you will, its exact value, nor more nor less, still returns to you. Every secret is told, every crime is punished, every...rewarded, every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty. What we call retribution is the universal necessity by which the whole appears wherever a part appears....

...itself. "The world looks like a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself. Every secret is told, every crime is punished, every...virtue rewarded, every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty."—Emerson, "Compensation." An understanding of karma as the law of justice underlying life's...

...mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself. Every secret is told, every ciime is punished, every virtue rewarded, every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty." — Emerson, "Compensation." An understanding of karma as the law of justice underlying life's inequalities...