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Title: The Cult of Incompetence

Author: Emile Faguet

Translator: Beatrice Barstow

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Language: English

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THE CULT OF INCOMPETENCE

FIRST EDITION November, 1911.
SECOND EDITION July, 1912.

THE CULT OF INCOMPETENCE

By EMILE FAGUET

_Of the French Academy_

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY
BEATRICE BARSTOW

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
THOMAS MACKAY

NEW YORK:
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
1912

CONTENTS.

PAGE

INTRODUCTION 1

CHAPTER

I. THE PRINCIPLES OF FORMS OF GOVERNMENT 12

II. CONFUSION OF FUNCTIONS 37

III. THE REFUGES OF EFFICIENCY 59

IV. THE COMPETENT LEGISLATOR 66

V. LAWS UNDER DEMOCRACY 82

VI. THE INCOMPETENCE OF GOVERNMENT 92

VII. JUDICIAL INCOMPETENCE 96

VIII. EXAMPLES OF INCOMPETENCE 123

IX. MANNERS 156

X. PROFESSION