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and further, that justice is real and
expedient, but not that which only appears just; nor the written law either,
because it does not do the work of the law1; that the
judge is like an assayer of silver, whose duty is to distinguish spurious from
genuine justice;
1 Which is the administration of real justice, not that which appears to the legislator to be such and is embodied in legal enactments.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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