For the substance alone is substantial; that is the law of Fact: if you discover not that, Fact, who already knows it, will let you also know it by and by! What is justice?
that, on the whole, is the question of the Sphinx to us.

The law of Fact is, that justice must and will be done.

The sooner the better; for the Time grows stringent, frightfully pressing! "What is justice ?" ask many, to whom cruel Fact alone will be able to prove responsive.

It is like jesting Pilate asking, What is Truth?
Jesting Pilate had not the smallest chance to ascertain what was Truth.

He could not have known it, had a god shewn it to him.