CHAPTER XII 



JUSTICE AND THE EXPANSION OF LIFE' 



MORALITY and justice are identical in their 

 essential nature, but they employ different 

 processes. To be moral is to practise justice with- 

 out constraint, solely under the influence of internal 

 impulse. Since the internal process is more rapid 

 than external pressure, morality is superior to 

 justice, but if on account of wrong social thinking 

 and failure to realize the identity of morality and 

 self-interest, the internal processes are not suffi- 

 cient, the less effective external processes must be 

 employed. If the moral man is he who practises 

 justice of his own free will, justice in its turn is a 

 means which has for its object the morality of 

 society. Since morality in the Darwinian theory 

 is synonymous with the life more abundant for the 

 individual, the passion for justice, which is in- 

 herent in every human heart, is essentially a pas- 

 sion for the expansion of life. 



The failure to understand the real meaning of 

 justice and injustice, like the failure to understand 



' For a more complete treatment of this subject, see Novikov, 

 La justice et I'expansion de la vie. 



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