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Excerpt from Religion and Free Will: A Contribution to the Philosophy of Values We have thus three distinct uses of the word justice As an abstract principle, it has no degrees, and the concepts excess, defect, and mean are alike inapplicable. As a mental quality, it admits of degrees, but can never be in excess as an effect, it prevents another mental quality, vindictiveness, with which it has no more necessary connexion than it has with any other mental quality, from realizing itself in an extreme activity. It has no direct effect on the temper of vindictiveness itself, but it controls its activity. This is the ofiice of retributive justice. The othee of distributive justice is to protect us against the effects of avarice, or the mania for accumulating property. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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