Everywhere where justice is practised and justice is maintained, it is to be observed that the stronger power, when confronted with the weaker powers which are inferior to it (whether they be groups, or individuals), searches for weapons to put an end to the senseless fury of resentment, while it carries on its object, partly by taking the victim of resentment out of the clutches of revenge, partly by substituting for revenge a campaign of its own against the enemies of peace and order, partly by finding, suggesting, and occasionally enforcing settlements, partly by standardising certain equivalents for injuries, to which equivalents the element of resentment is henceforth finally referred.
Zuzentasuna egikaritu, zuzentasuna mantendu den toki guztietan botere indartsuago batek bitartekoak bilatzen dituela ikusi dugu, bere azpitik kokaturik dauden jende ahulagoen artean (bai taldeak izan, bai gizabanakoak izan), bukaera jartzeko erresuminaren amorru zentzugabeari, partez mendekuaren eskuetatik erresuminaren objektua kenduz, partez bere aldetik, mendekuaren lekuan bakea eta ordenaren etsaien aurkako borroka, partez asmatuz, proposatuz eta, batzuetan, akordioak inposatuz, partez arau kategoriara jasoz kalteen baliokide jakin batzuk, zeinetara baitago igorririk une honetatik, behin betiko.