LEVIATHAN
Translation © George MacDonald Ross, 1975–1999
PART I: THE HUMAN BEING
Chapter 10: Power, dignity, and honour
Chapter 11: The variety of customs
Chapter 12: Religion
Chapter 13: The condition of the human race so far as it concerns happiness in the present life
Chapter 14: The two primary natural laws
Chapter 15: Other natural laws
Chapter 16: Persons and authors
PART II: THE STATE
Chapter 17: The cause, generation, and definition of the state
Chapter 18: The rights of those who have sovereign power by institution
Chapter 19: The kinds of states by institution, and the succession to sovereign power
Chapter 20: Paternal and despotic rule
Chapter 21: The freedom of citizens
Chapter 22: Collectives of citizens
Chapter 23: The public ministers of the sovereign power
Chapter 24: The nutritive and reproductive power of the state
Chapter 25: Advice
Chapter 26: Civil law
Chapter 27: Crimes, excuses, and extenuating circumstances
Chapter 28: Punishments and rewards
Chapter 29: Things which lead to the collapse of the state
Chapter 30: The duty of the sovereign ruler
Chapter 31: The natural kingdom of God
PART III. THE CHRISTIAN STATE
Chapter 32: The principles of Christian politics
Chapter 33: The number, antiquity, purpose, authority, and interpreters of the holy books
Chapter 35: The meaning in the Holy Scriptures of the words ‘Kingdom of God’, ‘holy’, ‘sacred’, and ‘sacrament’
Chapter 36: The word of God, and prophets
Chapter 37: Miracles, and their function
Chapter 38: The meaning in the Holy Scriptures of the words ‘eternal life’, ‘hell’, ‘salvation’, ‘the world to come’, and ‘redemption’
Chapter 39: The meaning in the Holy Scriptures of the word ‘church’
Chapter 40: The right to the Kingdom of God in Abraham, Moses, the high priests, and the kings of Judaea
Chapter 41: The function of our Blessed Saviour
Chapter 42: Ecclesiastical power
Chapter 43: What is necessary in order to be received into the Kingdom of Heaven
PART IV: THE KINGDOM OF DARKNESS
Chapter 44: The spiritual darkness arising from the misinterpretation of Scripture
Chapter 47: Who profits by this darkness