Pagina 693 van 734

[7] Cardwell's text, which here gives [Greek: paranomon], yields

a much easier and more natural sense. All Injustice violates law,

but only the particular kinds violate equality; and therefore the

unlawful : the unequal :: universal Injustice the particular i.e.

as whole to part.

There is a reading which also alters the words within the

parenthesis, but this hardly affects the gist of the passage.

[8] There are two reasons why the characters are not necessarily

coincident. He is a good citizen, who does his best to carry out

the [Greek: politeia] under which he lives, but this may be

faulty, so therefore pro tanto is he.

Again, it is sufficient, so far as the Community is concerned,

that he does the facts of a good man but for the perfection of

his own individual character, he must do them virtuously. A man

may move rightly in his social orbit, without revolving rightly

on his own axis.