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In itself then, the being Unjustly dealt by is the least bad, but

accidentally it may be the greater evil of the two. However,

scientific statement cannot take in such considerations; a

pleurisy, for instance, is called a greater physical evil than a

bruise: and yet this last may be the greater accidentally; it may

chance that a bruise received in a fall may cause one to be

captured by the enemy and slain.

Further: Just, in the way of metaphor and similitude, there may

be I do not say between a man and himself exactly but between

certain parts of his nature; but not Just of every kind, only

such as belongs to the relation of master and slave, or to that

of the head of a family. For all through this treatise the

rational part of the Soul has been viewed as distinct from the

irrational.