A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

I am sure that these old Greeks were fumbling in the dark. Plato’s view of Justice does not even imply a satisfactory answer for me. I must get in a talk with [Professor] Lodge on the matter. The universe and all that is beyond is made up of, subject to, and governed by, a mass of laws. Some of these are of importance to human beings. Accordingly as a person proceeds in harmony and without friction with these, he is happy just, blest, and accordingly as he bumps against these timeless fences he is unhappy, unjust, and curst. The latter conditions are merely degrees of the former and have no existence save as they are related to the positive aspects. The difference between justice and injustice is not one of kind but of degree. This is my theory in embryonic form. I have yet to modify it to bring in great factors such as God[…]
Diary of 1930, entry he made Wednesday, November 26 [he was 19]
Year: 1930
Chapter: Laws of Media
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