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Contents
EDITORS' PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
An Explication of the Picture Put Forward as the Frontispiece, to Serve as the Introduction to the Work
	Chronological Table
Book One. On the Establishment of Principles
	Annotations for the Chronological Table, in Which Is Made an Arrangement of Materials
	On the Elements
	On the Principles
	On Method
Book Two. On Poetic Wisdom
	On Wisdom in General
	An Exposition and Partitioning of Poetic Wisdom
	On the Universal Flood and the Giants
	On Poetic Metaphysics, in Which Are Given the Origins of Poetry, Idolatry, Divination, and Sacrifices
		Corollaries concerning the principal aspects of this science
	On Poetic Logic
		Corollaries concerning poetic tropes, monstrosities, and transformations
		Corollaries concerning the earliest nations speaking through poetic characters
		Corollaries concerning the origins of languages and letters, and therein the origins of hieroglyphics, of laws, of names, of insignia of noble houses, of medallions, and of money; and, so, the origins of the earliest language and literature of the natural law of the gentile peoples
		Corollaries concerning the origins of poetic locution, digression, inversion, rhythm, song, and verse
		The additional corollaries that were proposed above
		Final corollaries concerning the logic of the learned
	On Poetic Morals, and Therein on the Origins of the Commonplace Virtues Taught by Religion Along with Marriage
	On Poetic Economics, and Therein on the Earliest Families Comprised of Children
		On the families comprised of familial servants prior to cities, without which it was completely impossible for cities to come into being
		Corollaries concerning contracts completed by consent alone
		Mythological canon
	On Poetic Politics, by Which the Earliest Republics in the World Came to Be in the Strictest Aristocratic Form
		All republics have come to be from certain eternal principles of fealties
		On the origins of the census and the treasury
		On the origins of the Roman assemblies
		Corollary: It is divine providence which is the institutor of the orders of republics and, at the same time, of the natural law of the gentile peoples
		Heroic politics, continued
		Corollaries concerning the ancient Roman things and, in particular, the dreamed-up monarchical regime in Rome and the dreamed-up popular liberty instituted by Junius Brutus
		Corollaries concerning the heroism of the earliest peoples
		Epitomes of poetic history
	On Poetic Physics
		On the poetic physics concerning man—that is, on heroic nature
		Corollary on heroic sentences
		Corollary on heroic descriptions
		Corollary on heroic customs
	On Poetic Cosmography
	On Poetic Astronomy
		An astronomicalphysico-philological demonstration of the uniformity of principles in all the ancient gentile nations
	On Poetic Chronology
		Chronological canon for giving the beginnings of universal history, which must have begun its course prior to the monarchy of Ninus, from which that universal history is presumed to start
	On Poetic Geography
		Corollary on Aeneas coming to Italy
		On the naming and describing of heroic cities
Book Three. On the Discovery of the True Homer
	On the Recondite Wisdom That Has Been Opined about Homer
	On the Fatherland of Homer
	On the Age of Homer
	On the Unaccountable Faculty of Homer for Heroic Poetry
	Philosophical Proofs for the Discovery of the True Homer
	Philological Proofs for the Discovery of the True Homer
	Discovery of the True Homer
		The lack of congruity and the lack of verisimilitude belonging to the Homer believed in up until now becomes, with the Homer herein discovered, agreeableness and necessity
		The poems of Homer are found to be the two great treasure houses of the natural law of the gentile peoples of Greece
		A rational history of dramatic and lyric poetry
Book Four. On the Course That the Nations Make
	Three Kinds of Natures
	Three Kinds of Customs
	Three Kinds of Natural Law
	Three Kinds of Governance
	Three Kinds of Languages
	Three Kinds of Characters
	Three Kinds of Jurisprudence
	Three Kinds of Authority
	Three Kinds of Reason
		Corollary on the wisdom of the ancient Romans in matters of state
		Corollary: Foundational history of Roman law
	Three Kinds of Judgments
		Corollary on duels and reprisals
	Three Sects of Times
	Additional Proofs Treating the Properties of Heroic Aristocracies
	On Guardianship Over Boundaries
	On Guardianship Over Orders
	On Guardianship Over Laws
	Additional Proofs Taken from the Moderating Which Happens of the Subsequent Constitutions of Republics Because of the Prior Ways of Governing
		On the eternal and natural royal law through which nations come to rest under monarchies
		Refutation of the principles of apolitical teaching based upon the system of Jean Bodin
	Final Proofs Which Confirm That This Is the Course of Nations
		Corollary: Ancient Roman law was a serious poem, and ancient jurisprudence was a severe poetry, within which are found the earliest roughed-out features of a legal metaphysics; and how for the Greeks philosophy came from the laws
Book Five. On the Recurrence of Human Things During the Resurgence That the Nations Make
	The Recurrence Nations Make in Accordance with the Eternal Nature of Fealties; and, Consequently, the Recurrence of Ancient Roman Law in Feudal Law
	A Depiction of the World of Nations, Ancient and Modern, with Observations Conforming to the Design of the Principles of This Science
Conclusion of the Work—Concerning an Eternal Natural Republic, Best in Each of the Kinds of Republic Ordered by Divine Providence