Excerpt from Justice and the Modern Law If, in any jurisdiction of the United States, the law were suddenly to be administered as it actually is, the people would receive justice - but they would be shocked. They would enter upon the enjoyment of unaccustomed rights, and would find themselves relieved from long-accustomed burdens, - but, until habited to their new privileges, they would believe that the foundations of the government were being unsettled. Modem civilization has grown out of the continuous effort of man to achieve, among other things, an ideal of justice. The principles of that ideal have long since been discovered and applied. Man's right of freedom, his duty to aid his fellow man, his voluntarily assumed obligations arising out of his social relations - these three underlying principles of justice have been understood more or less vaguely for many centuries. The growth of civilization has been marked by the constantly increasing skill with which they have been applied, and by the constantly increasing perception of their essential character and ultimate dominion. 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.