Excerpt from Justice: A Discourse to the Students of the Law Department of the Indiana University, Delivered at Their Request, on Conferring Upon the Graduating Class Their Diplomas, February 26, 1850 The first distinction we have to point out in the things which the word justice denotes, Is that of objective and subjective. The objective Is that which the mind contemplates; 'the subject ive is a virtue existing in the mind itself. The objective and the subjective, In Greek, which Is the most beautiful and flexible ct languages, are denoted by two different names, but cognate. Dike is objective justice, to which our word right, in one of its many senses, corresponds. Dikaiosune is subjective justice, to which our word righteousness corresponds. But here, unfor tunately, our stock of paronymous words, derived from right, runs out, while In Greek the root Dike 13 found In Judge, (dil (as tes;) in To Judge, (dikadzo;) in Tribunal, (dikasterion;) and many more. For the sake of fixing In the mind this very important distinc tion between the objective and the subjective, think of the word sight as it pcficiurs in the following sentence. A hunter, coming suddenly upon a herd of deer - a gratifying sightfltaking sight at one of them, fired; and the powder happening to flash into one of his eyes, injured it so that, for a while he thought he should lose the sight of it altogether. Here it will be perceived that the word occurs three different times; and in each has a different meaning. In the first place, it is objective in the Sec ond and third it is subjective, with this difference, that, in the third, it denotes the power of sight, and in the second, an exer tion of that power. 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.