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Ability: equal, 212-214
Abortion: 121
Absolute Spirit (Hegel): 84, 85
Absolute: 46, 92
Absolutism: 2 n., 133, 134, 177
      Bossuet on, 132
      democratic, 133
      equal opportunity, 230
      King James: 144
      saving society from the state, 136-137
      temptation of statesmen, 135
Abundance: 246
Abuse:
      Bossuet on, 132
      freedom of the press and, 137, 147 n.
      government as evil, 68
      government used for private interests, 141
      liberal attitude, 121
      paternal authority outliving necessity, 142
      protection against, 72, 76
Accidents: 276, 277
Accountability: 184
Acton, John Emerich: 75 n.
Adam: 157
Administrators: excellence, 131
Affective knowledge: 23-30, 219-222
Africa: 12
Agnosticism: 91-92
Agrarians: 295, 321
Agriculture: 300, 321
Alienation: 231, 232, 233, 234, 246, 248
Almain, James: 160
Anabaptists: 166
Anarchy: 16, 31, 133, 143, 148 n., 149, 153, 185, 247
Anatomy: 249
Animals:
      man and, 61 n., 63 n.
      ruling principle, 72 n.
Anxiety: 218, 278, 287, 292
Appetite: properly disposed, 27
Aquinas, see Thomas Aquinas
Arabian Nights: 221
Arbitration: compulsory, 115
Architect: 198-199, 298
Aristocracy: 96, 133, 172, 175, 207, 258
      suppression of, 141
      transmission theory, 179
Aristotle: 8 n., 21, 23 n., 35 n., 59 n, 60 n.
      animal societies, 63 n.
      coercion, 109 n.
      commerce, 238
      democracy, 176
      despotic government, 74
      equality, 212 n.
      essence, 199 n.
      family, 315
      grammarian, 267
      labor, 298
      mixed regime, 107
      Plato's communism, 52
      ruling authority, 72-74 n.
      slaves, 131
      state defined, 69
      unity of the state, 53 n.
      virtue and vice, 82 n.
Army, 64, 65, 223
Arnond, Abbé: 169 n.
Art:
      culture and, 297
      good of the object, 214
      humane merits of, 294-295
Artificial: 275, 314
Artist: 263
Assembly:
      deliberating, retained in democracy, 186, 189, 194
      nonrepresentative, direct government, 151-153
      people as consultative assembly, 190
      personnel, 150
      private persons and, 44
      representative, 100 n.
      rule of majority, 36 n. 323
      third assembly: the people, 186, 189-190
      unanimity in, 101
Atrocities: 317
Attlee, Clement: 104
Authority: 144-194
      absolute, 132 n.
      arbitrary, 195
      autonomy and, 71, 129-131
      avoiding transmission of, 193
      cause of united action, 19-35
      charged with controlling experts, 47
      coercion and, 108
      common good and, 37, 39, 50, 56, 303
      community unanimity and, 29-31
      community with majority vote, 207
      consent and, 192
      deficiencies and necessity of, 8
      democracy and, 139-140
      designation theory, 164, 173
      distinct governing personnel, 38
      distribution of, 212
      diversity of functions, 7
      essential functions of, 10, 19, 30, 34., 59 n., 70, 129, 140-141
      experts in position of, 279
      free man and, 75
      functional diversity, 57
      functions (Aquinas), 61 n.
      God as source of, 62 n., 158
      hierarchical order, 208
      hypothesis: a people free from evil, 110 n.
      ignorance and indeterminism, 31
      intention of the common good, 48
      justice and, 142
      labor units in the small farm, 302-303
      leaders and the led, 146-147
      liberalism, 121
      liberty and, 139-141
      necessity, 19, 25 n., 58, 59, 168
      nonrepresentative, direct government, 152-154
      nontransmission of, 181
      obedience and, 148
      outliving paternal necessity, 17
      paternal function of, 7-19, 140, 142, 303
      paternal, in all-good society, 59
      pedagogical, 9
      radical negation of, 7
      representative assembly, 100 n.
      rotation of, 213
      rule: animate / inanimate things, 72-74 n.
      substitutional character of, 19, 30, 61 n., 70, 140
      supplementary to liberty, 141
      transmission of, 158-176, 185
      unity of action, 25 n., 29-31, 33, 36
      unity of judgment, 19-20
      unqualifiedly good, 59
      volition and, 37, 39
      see also Power
Autonomy: 14, 15, 17, 18, 55, 207, 208, 252, 262
      authority and, 129-131
      authority rendered necessary by, 71
      daily work, 299
      democratic freedom, 75
      infraction against, 142
      labor unions, 306
      merit and, 230
      nondestructive simplicity, 131
      reluctance to tolerate, 131
      self-government, 302
      small units of public life, 306
      state intervention, 253
      transmission theory, 178
      see also Freedom
Aversion: 219
Aviation: 277
Awe: 91