6Chapter IV. The Doctrine of Degeneration: The Ancients and Moderns
17Chapter XV. The Search for a Law of Progress
7Chapter V. The Progress of Knowledge: Fontenelle
18Chapter XVI. The Search for a Law of Progress: II. Comte
8Chapter VI. The General Progress of Man: Abbe de Saint-Pierre
19Chapter XVII. "Progress" in the French Revolutionary Movement (1830-1851)
9Chapter VII. New Conceptions of History: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Turgot
20Chapter XVIII. Material Progress: The Exhibition of 1851
10Chapter VIII. The Encyclopaedists and Economists
21Chapter XIX. Progress in the Light of Evolution
11Chapter IX. Was Civilisation a Mistake? Rousseau, Chastellux. 1.
22Epilogue
