FIG. 1. The False Balance. Proverbs 11:1. Quran 55:7-9 and 83:1-3. The Book of the Dead, the weighing of the heart against the feather of Ma'at. Collage from the archives: papyrus of Ani and of Hunefer, a seventeenth-century etching of Justice, the Bangalore famine of 1877, a New York bread line, a 1576 woodcut of the weight of God's word. Concrete, iron and burlap are Poly Haven scans. Credits.