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[00:01.46]Lesson 35
[00:03.64]Justice was done
[00:11.91]The word 'justice' is given two different meanings in the text.
[00:16.83]What is the distinction between them?
[00:21.21]The word justice is usually associated with courts of law.
[00:26.36]We might say that justice has been done
[00:28.84]when a man's innocence or guilt has been proved beyond doubt.
[00:34.03]Justice is part of the complex machinery of the law.
[00:38.69]Those who seek it, undertake an arduous journey
[00:42.41]and can never be sure that they will find it.
[00:45.76]Judges, however wise or eminent, are human and can make mistakes.
[00:52.06]There are rare instances when justice almost ceases to be an abstract concept.
[00:58.18]Reward or punishment are meted out quite independent of human interference.
[01:04.58]At such times, justice acts like a living force.
[01:09.07]When we use a phrase like 'it serves him right',
[01:12.35]we are, in part, admitting that a certain set of circumstances has enabled justice to act of its own accord.
[01:21.14]When a thief was caught on the premises of a large jewellery store one morning,
[01:26.04]the shop assistants must have found it impossible to resist the temptation to say
[01:30.82]'it serves him right'.
[01:33.00]The shop was an old converted house with many large, disused fireplaces and tall, narrow chimneys.