Chapter VII: Part VI: Public Will

CHAPTER XXXIV

THE FUNCTION OF PUBLIC WILL

Public and Private Will—The Lack of Public Will—Social
Wrongs Commonly Not Willed at All 395

CHAPTER XXXV

GOVERNMENT AS PUBLIC WILL

Government Not the Only Agent of Public Will—The Relative
Point of View; Advantages of Government as an Agent—Mechanical
Tendency of Government—Characteristics Favorable
to Government Activity—Municipal Socialism—Self-Expression
the Fundamental Demand of the People—Actual
Extension of State Functions 402

CHAPTER XXXVI

SOME PHASES OF THE LARGER WILL

Growing Efficiency of the Intellectual Processes—Organic
Idealism—The Larger Morality—Indirect Service—Increasing
Simplicity and Flexibility in Social Structure—Public
Will Saves Part of the Cost of Change—Human Nature the
Guiding Force behind Public Will 411

Index 421

_PART I_

PRIMARY ASPECTS OF ORGANIZATION

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION