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[28] Where the stock of good is limited, if any individual takes

more than his share some one else must have less than his share;

where it is infinite, or where there is no good at all this

cannot happen.

[29] The reference is to chap. vii. where it was said that the

law views the parties in a case of particular injustice as

originally equal, but now unequal, the wrong doer the gainer and

the sufferer the loser by the wrong, but in the case above

supposed there is but one party.

[30] So in the Politics, 1. 2.

_Hae men gar psuchae tou somatos archei despotikaen archaen, o de

nous taes orexeos politikaen kai despotikaev._

Compare also Bishop Butler's account of human nature as a

system-of the different authority of certain principles, and

specially the supremacy of Conscience.

BOOK VI

[1] I understand the illustration to be taken from the process of

lowering a weight into its place; a block of marble or stone, for

instance, in a building.