Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1910-05-06
A Rare Achievement.

A Rare Achievement.
Human nature, composed of few
instincts and many assimilated ideas, is
said to be disposed to Justice on no
stronger evidence than few revolution
airy wars aud complex judiciary de-
partment, in plans for government But
the individual, if such could be found,
who proved by his habits that he made
it the rule of his life, under any and all
circumstances, to be exactly Just in his
treatment of others, and wished no
more or less than that for himself, is
the person we should regard with awe,
aud the one of all others We could wish
to avoid. We could but regard such an
one as an abnormal being, not of our
times. A cruel bit of machinery rather
than likable human being; aud not at
all necessary part of the aggregation.
The assertion that humanity, gener-
ally has not acquired that one awful
quality, love of exact justice, can BIZ
verified by any body who is not only
familiar with cultured persons-much
alike wherever found but having also
knowledge of his own nature. Such
an inquiry will result in the conviction
that humanity inclines more aud more
toward justice largely altered in charac,
ter through association with better sent
iments. We are what our religious and
secular education make us, hence an
inclination toward magnaninlty, gen
erosity, charity, pity and mercy. But :
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied
And vice sometimes by action dignifed"
That idea is advisedly chosen to pre-
cede strong bit of evidence in support
of the assertion that the best men ex-
hibit the deficiency noted under irritat
Jag circumstances. The provoking sug-
gestion of New religion" so moved
the numberless cultured men, doing
their best to advance the old religion
that justice as commonly understood
was evincsd only here and there. The
exceptional criticism at the time may
have been due to a love of justice
that is possibility attended by
doubt The natural impulse of all
true Christians was to refute as vigor-
ously as possible an unwecome asser-
ton. In that educational instance a
noble impulse prevailed over such a
sense of the Importance of justice as
may have constituted a trail. The re.
ligious person cannot, in the nature OF
things be just, as we understand the
| term.
Aud we see the same intense parti.
sanship in State affairs with nothing
but sense of its necessity to excuse it.
Iuc abdIcsihdh VI PoiipiCIhu Wouiu pe
credited with foolish and dangerous
quixotism if he did not stand pat Oh
the fundamental principles of his party
Here we find the Thought that end,
justify means, in marching order.
And it is doubtful if our great judi
ciary system, though the most likely tC
furnish instances of the love of Justice
per Sc, does not quite fulfil the pur.
pose of its institution. The members
of the whole legal profession are sub
ject, though in smaller degree, to the
influences which move other men. In
stances of strict inpartialty in despite
of any and all attending circumstances
is, we think, and hope, exceptional il
judgments of the less fortunate mem
bers of society. A Judge bound by Law
so that interest and sympathy for til,
unfortunate is an impossbiIity may b'
accounted by many just man. but HI
| is hardly that if doubt in the case il
not determined beyond question. Their
could be no greater evidence of mis-
} fit disposition than a protest over ap
peals and other means for the protec
ton of accused persons.
Now what do we find in that servic,
, to the people called criticism, under
taken by the fit and the unfit? An evi
, dent love of actual Justice? Hardly
The very nature of newspaper work
not forgetting the need of hasty pei
, Torrance of duty makes the habit O.
/ impartiality difficult of attainment, Il