COMPENSATION
BEING AN ESSAY
AS WRITTEN BY
RALPH WALDO
EMERSON
DONE INTO A PRINTED BOOK BY
THE ROYCROFTERS, AT THE SHOP,
WHICH IS IN EAST AURORA, ERIE
COUNTY, NEW YORK, U.S.A. MCMIV
Copyright, 1903, by The Roycrofters, East Aurora, N. Y.
In this God’s world, with its wild-whirling eddies and mad foam-oceans, where men and nations perish as if without law, and judgment for an unjust thing is sternly delayed, dost thou think that there is therefore no justice? * * * * I tell thee again there is nothing else but justice. One strong thing I find here below: the just thing, the true thing.—Thomas Carlyle.