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as individual. In the beginning in both Hebrew and Anglo- 
American law only a few members of society were recognized 
as having legal rights, and the legal rights recognized were 
few. In the course of time the number of rights and duties 
has grown and practically all human beings are recognized as 
having such rights and duties in their individual relationships ; 
but even now Anglo-American law does not recognize all the 
rights and duties recognized by Jesus’ system of law, and it 
does not recognize its own legal rights and duties as applying 
in all the relationships of life, as for example, in such group 
relationships as that of capitalists and laborers and that of 
the nationals of different countries. Of course Jesus’ system 
of law is not a legal system. It is not enforced by any gov- 
ernment. Yet it is a system of social justice. It recognizes 
social interests, and seeks to protect them by rights and du- 
ties, tho they are moral instead of legal rights and duties. 
Up-to-date legal justice is a long way from Jesus’ social jus- 
tice. Yet it is tending in the direction of Jesus’ social justice. 
Efforts are being made to bring both groups within nations 
and national groups under the reign of law. New social in- 
terests are being recognized. That means new legal rights 
and duties. It is possible to imagine the time when legal jus- 
tice will be social justice, and, perhaps, so far as concerns 
substantive rights, Jesus’ social justice. 
