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GRAND INSPECTOR INQUISITOR COMMANDER. 463
condemned me to death, I refused to flee and escape,
lest I should bring the laws into disrepute ; holding
the good citizen bound to submit to even the unjust
judgment of the State. If thou woulclst fain become
a judge of others, first prepare thyself by learning to
obey the laws.
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I was Confucius, who read and interpreted to the
people of ancient China the great laws engraved by
the finger of God, in everlasting letters, upon the
pages of the many-leaved book of nature. I said
to them, desire not for your country any other bene-
fit than justice ; the great law of duty is to be looked
for in humanity. " Justice is Equity," to render to
every man that to which he is entitled. He who
would stand above the ordinary level of man must
be exempt from prejudices and self-conceit and ob-
stinacy, and be governed by the mandates of justice
alone. Hear much, reflect much, and say nothing
superfluous. Let doubt of guilt be acquitted ; and
presumption of innocence be solid proof. ' That
the noblest recompense of human virtue
is
!" Do thou
strive so to live and act, to obey and govern, and
thou, too, mayest live in the good opinion of men,
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after thou art dead, and thine influences may make
thee, too, a king over the minds of men.
I was Minos, the lawgiver of Crete. I taught
the Cretans that the laws which I enacted were die-