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Lecture   XI.	Farther Definition of the Idea of the State,	.    .    .	page 175
	Material of the Absolute State.
XII.	Historical Development of the State,	.    .    .	page 191
	How the State had its beginning in Central Asia, and how it attained in Greece and Rome to Equality of Right for All, as its second stage of development. Union of the whole existing Culture in one single State in the Roman Empire.
XIII.	Influence of Christianity on the State,	.    .    .	page 209
	Destruction of the Roman Empire, and the creation of a New State as well as an entirely New Era by means of Christianity.
XIV.	Development of the State in Modern Europe,	.    .    .	page 225
	Freer development of the State after the fall of the Spiritual Central Power in the several States of the one and undivided Christian Republic of Nations. This development ensured by the necessary care of each individual State for its own preservation in the general struggle for aggrandizement. Establishment of Equality of Rights for All. The effort of the State to make all its Citizens, in the highest possible degree, the instruments of its purposes, may be taken as the fundamental political characteristic of the Age.
XV.	Public Morality of the Present Age,	.    .    .	page 241
	General and Public Manners of the Age.
XVI.	Public Religion of the Present Age,	.    .    .	page 257
	Religious characteristics of the Age.
XVII.	Conclusion,	.    .    .	page 271
	Concluding Lecture on the true purpose and possible result of these Lectures.
Note.—The reader will do well to bear in mind that the ‘Present Age’ characterized in these lectures was the great transition period of Modern Europe,—the Age of Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot and the Encyclopaedists on the one hand, and of Lessing, Kant, Goethe and Schiller on the other.—Tr.