1. GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE HEROIC AGE Significance of the individual personality--The hero an ideal human being, the god an ideal hero--Changes in economic life and in society--The rise of the State. 2. THE EXTERNAL CULTURE OF THE HEROIC AGE Folk migration and the founding of States--Plough-culture--Breeding of domestic animals--The wagon--The taming of cattle--The ox as a draught animal--The production of milk--Relation of these achievements to cult--Warfare and weapons--Rise of private property--Colonization and trade. 3. THE DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL SOCIETY The place of the State in the general development of society--The duodecimal and the decimal systems in the organization of political society--The mark community and military organization. 4. FAMILY ORGANIZATION WITHIN POLITICAL SOCIETY The joint family--The patriarchal family--Paternal descent and paternal dominance--Reappearance of the monogamous family. 5. THE DIFFERENTIATION OF CLASSES Common property and private property--The conquering race and the subjugated population-- Distinction in rank and property--The influence of State and of legal system. 6. THE DIFFERENTIATION OF VOCATIONS The priesthood as combining class and vocation--Military and political activity--Agriculture and the lower vocations---The gradual equalization of respect accorded to vocations. 7. THE ORIGIN OF CITIES The original development of the city--Castle and temple as the signs of a city--The guardian deity of city and State--Secondary developments. 8. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE LEGAL SYSTEM Custom and law--Civil law as the original province of law--Political and religious factors--The council of elders and the chieftain--The arbitrator and the appointed judge--The religious sanction of legal practices. 9. THE DEVELOPMENT OF PENAL LAW Blood revenge and its replacement--Wergild--Right of sanctuary--Development of imprisonment out of private custody of wrongdoer--The _Jus Talionis_--Increase in complexity of rewards and punishments. 10. THE DIFFERENTIATION OF LEGAL FUNCTIONS Division of the judicial function--Influence of social organization--Logical classification of forms of the State lacking in genetic significance--Development of constitutions out of history and custom. 11. THE ORIGIN OF GODS Degeneration theories and developmental theories--Hypotheses of an original monotheism or polytheism--Theory based on nature-mythology--Demon theory of Usener--Characteristics distinguishing the god from the demon and the hero--The god as the result of a fusion of ideal hero and demon. 12. THE HERO SAGA The hero of saga and the hero of märchen--The purely mythical and the historical hero saga--Magic in märchen and saga--The religious legend--The saint legend.