Democracy, encouragement of incompetence under, 30, 92, 126 ---- English, 170 ---- evolution of a modern, 18 _et seq._ ---- fusion with aristocracy, 231-235 ---- governed by decrees, 34, 91 ---- and imperative mandate, 32 ---- lack of respect under, 158-161 ---- legislation under, 66, 79-81 ---- magistrature, 110-122 ---- Montesquieu on, 137-139 ---- morality under, 139 ---- Nietzsche on, 220-226 ---- old men under, 146-153 ---- Plato on, 127-129 ---- and politicians, 34, 36 ---- position of women under, 140-142 ---- principle of, 14, 15 ---- and private enterprise, 59-61 ---- and reform, 216-219 ---- Rousseau on, 136, 137 ---- and schoolmasters, 191-215 ---- and socialism, 61-65 ---- and special jurisdictions, 98, 99 Demos, 56, 86 Demosthenes, 82 Deputy, 55, 174 ---- mayors, 119 Despotism, principle of, 12 ---- tendency of democracy towards, 62, 65, 96 D'Etalonde, 115 Diderot, 207 Division of labour, 15 ---- ---- in domestic life, 141 Divorce, 125 Germans, 67 Gerontocracy, 146, 153 Gladstone, Mr., 3, 5 Goncourt, 201 Greece, 222, 226 Greeks, 71, 73, 87 Greek philosophers, 126 Holbach, 207 Homer, 56 Horace, 152 Hugo, Victor, 209 Ideal legislator, the, 79 Imperative mandate, 32, 33 Indirect election, 19 Inequalities, artificial and natural, 30 Interpellation, 83 Italy, 170 Japy, Mme., 114 Jesuits in Paraguay, 62 Joannes, Baron, 68 Judges, appointment of, 46, 100-112 ---- interpretation of the law, 163 _Juge de paix_, 111, 116 _et seq._ Jurisdiction, criminal, 99 ---- ecclesiastical, 97 ---- military, 97 ---- seignorial, 97 Jury, the 112-115, 168, 169 Kant, 153 La Barre, 115 Lacedaemon, 150, 231 Law, abolishing primogeniture, 124 ---- abuse of, 110 ---- of competence, 97 ---- and decrees, 84-91 ---- degree in, 116 ---- doctors of, 108 ---- ecclesiastical, 125 ---- emergency, 82-89 ---- fundamental, 89 ---- governs men, 121 ---- of July 12th, 1905, 117 ---- made by the ideal legislator, 67-74 ---- made by the people, 17, 18, 25, 40, 194-196, 234 ---- must be ancient and unchanged, 77-79 ---- not the same for rich and poor, 199 ---- permitting divorce, 125 ---- of proportion, 14 ---- questions of, 113, 162 ---- of Sunday observance, 75, 76 ---- and tradition, 230 Legal profession, the, 60 Legislation, ancient, 87 ---- English, 2, 4 ---- party, 81-82 ---- philanthropic, 6 ---- predatory, 8 ---- requires special knowledge, 18, 67 Legislator, essential qualifications for, 66-81 ---- Greek, 73 Lestranger, M. Marcel, 164, 166 Liberty of association, 194, 196 Louis XIV, 21, 22, 150, 195, 204, 209 ---- XV, 150 ---- XVI, 133 Louvois, 43 Lycurgus, 2, 73, 87 Lynching, 168, 169 Machiavel, 71 Machiavelian counsel, 234 Magistracy, hereditary system advocated for, 105, 163, 168