this same community and convergence of will. The humble must
love their country in loving the great and the great must love their
country in loving the humble; and so all classes must be at one in their
hopes and in their fears. _Amicitia sit!_

INDEX.

Abbeville, 115

Abolition of Inheritance, 200, 203

Academies, 27

America, 170

Amoeba, 15 _et seq._

Antisthenes, 132

Aristides, law of, 232

Aristocracy, 36, 90, 137, 159
---- aptitude for government, 230
---- constitution which obeys laws, 88
---- demophil, 2, 232, 233
---- education under, 190
---- and examination system, 176
---- fusion with democracy, 231-233
---- impossible without merit, 31
---- old men under, 147
---- of Parliament, 172
---- permanent senators form, 58
---- and religion, 205, 207
---- result of indirect election, 19
----- and special jurisdictions, 98

Aristophanes, 126, 150

Aristotle, 14, 16, 31, 70, 78, 85, 88, 129, 131, 134-136, 153, 208, 215,
231, 234, 235

_Arrondissement_, 44
---- _scrutin d'_, 83

Atheism, 207, 208

Athens, 17, 31, 37, 83, 113, 149, 163, 226, 232

Augier, 213

Austria, 49

Barthelemy, Abbe, 157

Barthou, M., 9, 118

Belgium, 170

Bismarck, 209

Bonald, 201

Brunetiere, 188

Busiris, 115

Calas, 115

Carnot, 93

Carthage, 16, 231

Caucus, 6

Chamber of Deputies, 44, 118, 172-174

Charlemagne, 149

Charondas, 87

Church, the, 98, 206

Cicero, 70
---- _de Senectute_, 149

Civility, 156 _et seq._

Civil Service, the, appointments to, 45-51
---- examinations for, 176 _et seq._

Clergy, the, 169

Code, the, 75, 76, 163

Colbert, 43

Collectivism, 200-203

Communism, 200

_Competence par collation_, 19, 22

Competitive examination, 175 _et seq._

Conciliation Boards, 97

_Concordat_, 206

Constitution of 1873, 57
---- mixed, 231

Co-optation, 176

_Cour de Cassation_, 57, 101, 108, 176

Court of Appeal, 57, 107

Courts, ecclesiastical, 98
---- martial, 98

Criminal procedure, 83
---- jurisdiction, 99

Dandin, 184

_Dandino-mania_, 184

Decadence, 222, 223

Decrees, 84, 91, 208, 209

Demagogues, 85, 191, 213

Democracy, Aristotle on, 129-136
---- Athenian, 17
---- children under, 142-146
---- and direct government, 37 _et seq._

Democracy, encouragement of incompetence under, 30, 92, 126