that virtue which in their language is express|ed by a word which we commonly translate temperance, but which might more properly be translated good temper, or sobriety and moderation of mind.
Justice, the last and greatest of the four cardinal virtues, took place, according to this system, when each of those three faculties of the mind, con••ined itself to it's proper office, without attempting to encroach upon that of any other; when reason directed and pas|sion obeyed, and when each passion perform|ed its proper duty, and exerted itself towards its proper object easily and without reluc|tance, and with that degree of force and en|ergy, which was suitable to the value of what it pursued. In this consisted that compleat virtue, that perfect propriety of conduct, which Plato, after some of the antient Pytha|goreans, denominated Justice.
The word, it is to be observed, which ex|presses justice in the Greek language has se|veral different meanings; and as the corres|pondent word in all other languages, so far as I know, has the same, there must be some natural affinity among those various significa|tions. In one sense we are said to do justice to our neighbour when we abstain from doing
