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Can we say that there will be justice in another world because it is conspicuously absent in this?

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Yes, because you would not advert to the absence of justice unless you had a sense of justice. The relative and inferior sense of justice possessed by men supposes an absolute justice, and that absolute justice will secure the absolute balance it demands – some day. The fact that absolute justice does not prevail in this life is indication enough that it will do so in a future life.

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