Philosophy of Democratic Government / by Yves R. Simon


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Labor: 245
      apprenticeship, 302
      big industry: servant of the machine, 296
      fluidity of occupations, 314
      humans, as merchandise, 245
      man's relation to, 278
Labor movement: 97
Labor Party: 104
Labor relations: 254-255
      over- underrating, 250
      sense of service, 310
      stability, 314
      technical thinking, 298
      see also Industry; Work
Labor unions: 98, 137, 138, 139, 251-252
      autonomy; discipline, 306
      compulsory arbitration, 115
      democratic life, 317
      self-government, 305
Laissez faire: 6, 251
Latin scholars: 45
Law(s): 38, 51, 75 n., 247, 275
      abiding by, 187
      abusive, not genuine law, 113 n.
      community power, 176
      constitutional power to make, 86
      ethics; definition, 209
      issuing in emergency situations, 183
      makers of, 158-159
      of nations: deduced from natural law, 167
      ordained to common good, 82 n.
      personal consent to, 153-154
      product of reason, 158
      public men as framers of, 159
      technique and, 267
      see also Natural law
Leader(ship):
      ablest persons, 224
      appreciation of qualities of, 60 n.
      authority, 147
      belongs to the governed, 146-147
      blind, 221
      communications, 66
      criminals in high positions, 82-84
      designated only in universal suffrage, 84
      designation belongs to society, 87, 88
      divine designation, 210
      husband and wife, 10
      members of the larger class, 222
      outsiders resented, 218, 221
      party system, and selection of, 103
      prudence, 279
      qualifications, 215
      rotating, 213
      rural life, 321
      society's need for, 177
      virtuous persons, 95
League of Nations: 12
Lenin, V.1., 2 n., 4 n., 116
Leo XIII, Pope: 62 n., 130 n., 154
Liberalism: 2 n., 246, 247
      characteristics, 120-122
      democracy and, 119
      human relations, 234
      laissez faire, 6
      optimism, 5
      principles; opinions, 124
Liberty: 55, 206, 257
      curtailed as authority grows stronger, 139-141
      equality and, 195
      factors producing or increasing, 33
      Fascism, 2 n.
      property and, 248, 257
      rationalism and, 278
      Rousseau, 149
Life:
      casual situations in, 276
      life-expectancy: 205
      protection of, 205
      requirements of, 228
Locke, John: 201
Loneliness:
      community life versus individualism, 307-322
      mere partnerships and, 65
      urban concentration, 309, 311
Louis Philippe I: 290
Louis XII, King: 160
Louis XIV, King: 133, 144
Love: 231, 304
      common good, 54
      virtue and common good, 48


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