The Theory of the Four Movements and of the General Destinies 1
1808 Introduction 3
Preliminary discourse 5
Plan 29
First part:Exposition of some branches of the general destinies 33
General ideas about the destinies 36
Phases and periods of the social order in the third planet namely the earth 40
Epilogue:On the proximity of the social metamorphosis 101
Second part:Description of the various branches of the private or domestic destinies 107
First account:On the progressive household of the seventh period,and on the discontents of the sexes in the incoherent household 109
Second account:On the splendour of the combined order 151
On the abandonment of moral philosophy 181
Third part:Confirmation derived from the inadequacy of the inexact sciences to deal with all the problems that the civilised mechanism presents 191
First demonstration:Freemasonry and its still unknown properties 194
Second demonstration:The insular monopoly and its still unknown properties 203
Interlude:System of development of Civilisation 217
Third demonstration:Commercial licence:Its known vices and its unknown dangers 222
Epilogue:On the social chaos of the globe 273
Omitted chapter 282
Note A 289
Advice to the civilised 305
1818 Introduction 310
Index 323