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period corresponds to the present Period of the Socialization 
of Law in Anglo-American legal history. As in Anglo-Amer- 
ican history this period resembles the Period of Equity, so in 
Hebrew history it resembles the Period of the Prophets. 
The chief characteristic of this period is the emphasis of so- 
cial interests. The end of law in this period is the satisfac- 
tion of as many human wants as possible, — in Anglo-American 
law to make legal justice social justice; in Hebrew law to 
give a system of social justice alongside of legal justice. 
The reason for law is social interests. Remedies are given 
for the enforcement of rights and duties. Rights and duties 
are given for the protection of certain social interests which 
people feel must be secured. The first social interest which 
was protected in Hebrew law was the first to receive protec- 
tion in Anglo-American law. It was peace. The early He- 
brews were concerned with keeping the peace. After awhile 
this broadened into the social interest in general security in 
the spheres of body and life, family, property, honor, liberty, 
and the spiritual life, in Hebrew law as in Anglo-American 
law. Hebrew law, like Anglo-American law, finally, also be- 
gan to recognize the social interest in social institutions, gen- 
eral morals, and general progress. But with Jesus’ Hebrew 
law, not only the social interest in peace, human progress, in- 
dividual life, and general morals found a recognition which 
they had never received before, but he recognized new social 
interests and insisted that the old social interests applied in 
all the relations of life, group and national as well as indi- 
vidual. Anglo-American law is recognizing new social inter- 
ests and beginning to broaden the scope of old, and to that 
extent is tending in the same direction as Hebrew law took 
in the teachings of Jesus, but it has not yet reached and per- 
haps will never reach the boundaries outlined by Jesus. 
The goal of all law is social justice. By social justice we 
mean such an adjustment of the relations of human beings 
that all receive all their rights and all discharge all their 
duties 108 in all the affairs of life, group and national as well 
10S In all systems of law, social interests are maintained by public rights which the 
state aggregates to itself vindicated by the criminal law, and by rights, powers, privi- 
leges, and immunities conferred upon individuals and vindicated by private actions in 
the courts. Old Hebrew law and Jesus’ law recognize the same rights and duties as 
are found in other systems of law. The primary private rights in rem thus recognized 
are: personal safety, family, property, reputation, liberty, privacy, and community ad- 
vantages. In addition to these Jesus’ system also recognizes the following primary pri- 
vate rights: mercy, purity of heart, kindly speech, peace (non-resistance), forbear- 
ance from wealth-seeking, sincerity, and good-will. Jesus’ Law of Social Justice, by 
Willis. 
