9. By charity we give of our own to another: by justice we render to another that which is his. Charity neglected calls for no restitution, when the need that required it is past away: justice violated cries for restitution, for what we have taken away from our neighbour remains still his. The obligations of justice are negative, except for the fulfilment of contracts: obligations in charity are largely positive. (_Ethics_, c. v., s. ix., n. 7, p. 108.) _Readings_.--_C. Gent._, III., 117; 2a 2æ, q. 26, art. 4; _ib._, art. 7; _ib_., art. 8; 2a 2æ, q. 25, art. 8; _ib._, art. 9; _ib._, art. 6; Ferrier, _Greek Philosophy_, Socrates, nn. 13, 26, 27, 29. (_Remains_, vol. i., pp. 227, seq.) CHAPTER V. OF RIGHTS. SECTION I.--_Of the definition and division of Rights_. 1. A _right_ is that in virtue of which a person calls anything his own. More elaborately, a right is a _moral power residing in a person, in virtue whereof he refers to himself as well his own actions as also other things, which stand referred to him in preference to other persons_. A right is a _moral power_, as distinguished from physical force or ability. It resides in a _person_, a being whom we call _autocentric_, as distinguished from a _thing_, which is _heterocentric_. (c. ii., s. i., n. 2, p. 203.) A person is his own, a thing is another's. Every intellectual nature is a person except the Humanity of Christ, an exception which does not concern us here. To the Creator all created personalities are as things, but that again is not our concern in this place, where we treat of the relations between man and man. It will have to be noted hereafter with great emphasis, that the _individual_ man is a _person_, not a thing and chattel, in relation to the _State_, and consequently has rights against the State.