368 Justice and the Expansion of Life 



held their interests to be opposed. The establish- 

 ment of justice has made it possible for them to 

 live together, just as the establishment of universal 

 justice, i. e., the juridical association of all man- 

 kind, will make it obvious that the interests of 

 present-day nations are in reality one, and war 

 will become a thing of the past. Then human 

 life will be able to expand as far as the natural 

 limitations of our planet will permit. 



Expansion of life depends not only on the num- 

 ber of men associated together, but on the intensity 

 of their activity, and this too is a function of justice. 

 When every citizen's rights are respected and each 

 enjoys the fiill fruits of his labour, activity is most 

 intense. In Turkey the poor peasant does not 

 dare increase the yield of his garden for fear of 

 tempting the cupidity of brigands and tax col- 

 lectors, and in America and England the factory 

 worker who feels that he is being exploited and 

 believes he has no interest in increased activity, 

 often deliberately limits his output. The fact of 

 injustice leads to conscious limitation of the 

 fulness of life. 



We cannot abolish earthquakes or cyclones, 

 and the injury caused by them is beyond our power 

 to prevent. We cannot give men more inherited 

 intelligence. But we can cease massacring and 

 despoiling one another. The forms of suffering 

 and unhappiness due to injustice we can prevent. 



If every injustice is a mutilation, obviously 

 injustice and unhappiness are synonymous. No 



