1. Metaphysical psychology and ingenia formation; 2. Eliminating juridical constraints and naturalizing right; 3. The continuity thesis and the aim of government; 4. The politics of hope and fear; 5. Statecraft and the taming of fortune; 6. From superstition and persecution to true religion and toleration; 7. The affective and epistemic cases for democracy; 8. Salvation, eternity, and the state.