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is just. But that does not make it so. Whole societies have committed
murder and atrocity in the name of justice. What is legally just may not
be what is naturally just. The test of truth, said the natural law thinkers,
is not what people perceive it to be, or what they call it. There is, they
insisted, a higher, more objective standard. Such qualities (or values) as
honesty, integrity, courage, beauty, and of course liberty and justice, cannot be scientifically demonstrated; but this is not to say we are whol