Show A Definition of Justice The corporate life of the society being no longer in danger and the remaining business of government being that of maintaining the conditions condi-tions requisite for the highest individual indi-vidual life there conies the question ques-tion What are these conditions Already they have been implied and comprehended under the administration admin-istration of justice but so vaguely is the meaning of this phrase commonly com-monly conceived that a more specific speci-fic statement must be made Justice Jus-tice then as here to be understood means preservation of the normal connections between acts and results the obtainment by each of as much benefit as his efforts are equivalent equiv-alent tono more and no less Living Liv-ing and working within the restraining res-training imposed by one anothers presence justice requires that individuals indi-viduals shall severally take the consequences con-sequences of their conduct neither increased nor decreased The superior super-ior shall have the good of his superiority super-iority and the inferior the evil of his inferiority A veto is therefore put on all public action which abstracts ab-stracts from some men part of the advantages they have earned and awards to other men advantagesthey have not earned That from the developed industrial indus-trial type of society there are excluded ex-cluded all forms of communistic distribution dis-tribution the inevitable trait of which is that they tend to equalize the lives of good and bad idle and diligent is readily proved For when the struggle of existence between be-tween societies by war having ceased there remains only industrial indus-trial struggle for existence the final survival and spread must be on the part of those societies which produce pro-duce the largest number of the best incividuals individuals best adapted forlife inthe industrialstate Suppose two societies otherwise equal qua in one of which the superior are allowed to retain for their own benefit and the benefit of their offspring off-spring the entire proceeds of their labor but in the other of which the superior have taken from them part of these proceeds for the benefit of the inferior and their offspring Evidently the superior will thrive and multiply more in the first than in the second A greater number of the best children will be reared in tha firsthand eventually it will outgrow the second Popular Science I Sci-ence Monthly i |