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Of the relation which Reciprocation bears to the Just we have

already spoken: and here it should be noticed that the Just which

we are investigating is both the Just in the abstract and also as

exhibited in Social Relations, which latter arises in the case of

those who live in communion with a view to independence and who

are free and equal either proportionately or numerically.[22]

It follows then that those who are not in this position have not

among themselves the Social Just, but still Just of some kind and

resembling that other. For Just implies mutually acknowledged

law, and law the possibility of injustice, for adjudication is

the act of distinguishing between the Just and the Unjust.