that may have its basis in the primary law of things: — if he sought a designation for it he would say: “It is justice itself.” He acknowledges under certain circumstances, which made him hesitate at first, that there are other equally privileged ones; as soon as he has settled this question of rank, he moves among those equals and equally privileged ones with the same assurance, as regards modesty and delicate respect, which he enjoys in intercourse with himself — in accordance with an innate heavenly mechanism which all the stars understand.

It is an ADDITIONAL instance of his egoism, this artfulness and self-limitation in intercourse with his equals — every star is a similar egoist; he honours HIMSELF in them, and in the rights which he concedes to them, he has no doubt that the exchange