choose, but would rather be Pierrette than Rogron? The instinct of
happiness within us needs no telling that he who is morally right
must be happier than he who is wrong, though the wrong be done from
the height of a throne. And, even though the Rogrons be unaware of
their Injustice, it alters nothing; for, be we aware or unaware of
the evil we commit, the air we breathe will still be heavily
charged. Nay, more--to him who knows he does wrong there may come,
perhaps, the desire to escape from his prison; but the other will
die in his cell, without even his thoughts having travelled beyond
the gloomy walls that conceal from him the true destiny of man.

79. Why seek justice where it cannot be? and where can it be, save
in our soul? Its language is the natural language of the spirit of
man; but this spirit must learn new words ere it can travel in the
universe. Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the
universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its
attention; and what we term justice is truly nothing but this
equilibrium transformed, as honey is nothing but a transformation of
the sweetness found in the flower. Outside man there is no justice;
within him injustice cannot be. The body may revel in ill--gotten
pleasure, but virtue alone can bring contentment to the soul. Our
inner happiness is measured out to us by an incorruptible Judge and
the mere endeavour to corrupt him still further reduces the sum of
the final, veritable happiness he lets fall into the shining scale.
It is lamentable enough that a Rogron should be able to torture a
helpless child, and darken the few hours of life the chance of the
world had given; but injustice there would be only if his wickedness
procured him the inner happiness and peace, the elevation of thought
and habit, that long years spent in love and meditation had procured
for Spinoza and Marcus Aurelius. Some slight intellectual