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Politics and Eros: Beyond Justice "A Raft on the Seas of Life"

Justice is a noble virtue, yet it seems everywhere incomplete, even when it seems complete. In Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (March 4, 1864), for instance, we read:

As was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether" (Psalm 19:9). With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle...