How many beggars one rich man can feed!/When kings build, the carters have their hands full,” writes Friedrich Schiller in Kant und seine Ausleger.1 In this poem carters are separated from the king as conspicuously as light is from darkness, or giants from dwarves. Should this division prove unjust, the king may be overthrown. Schiller’s poem, however, has nothing to do with political just…