He too will frame an ideal, but his ideal comprehends not only abstract justice, but the whole relations of man.

Under the fanciful illustration of the large letters he implies that he will only look for justice in society, and that from the State he will proceed to the individual.

His answer in substance amounts to this,--that under favourable conditions, i.e.in the perfect State, justice and happiness will coincide, and that when justice has been once found, happiness may be left to take care of itself.

That he falls into some degree of inconsistency, when in the tenth book he claims to have got rid of the rewards and honours of justice, may be admitted; for he has left those which exist in the perfect State.

And the philosopher 'who retires under the shelter of a wall' can hardly have been esteemed happy by him, at least not in this world.