4. Six Chinese persons from licensed brothel No. 71, Wellington
Street, were arraigned before the Registrar General, charged with
buying and selling girls for evil purposes, and also with selling
girls to go to California, and with disturbing the peace. The
Inspector described the house thus: "I found all the defendants
on
332. Tyranny consists in the desire of universal power beyond its scope.
There are different assemblies of the strong, the fair, the sensible, the
pious, in which each man rules at home, not elsewhere. And sometimes they
meet, and the strong and the fair foolishly fight as to who shall be master,
for their mastery is of different kinds. They do not understand one another,
and their fault is the desire to rule everywhere. Nothing can effect this,
not even might, which is of no use in the kingdom of the wise, and is only
mistress of external actions.
Tyranny--... So these expressions are false and tyrannical: "I am fair,
therefore I must be feared. I am strong, therefore I must be loved. I am...
Tyranny is the wish to have in one way what can only be had in another. We
render different duties to different merits; the duty of love to the
pleasant; the duty of fear to the strong; duty of belief to the learned.
We must render these duties; it is unjust to refuse them, and unjust to ask
others. And so it is false and tyrannical to say, "He is not strong,
therefore I will not esteem him; he is not able, therefore I will not fear
him."
333. Have you never seen people who, in order to complain of the little fuss
you make about them, parade before you the example of great men who esteem
them? In answer I reply to them, "Show me the merit whereby you have charmed
these persons, and I also will esteem you."
334. The reason of effects.--Lust and force are the source of all our
actions; lust causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
335. The reason of effects.--It is, then, true to say that all the