Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A note on the translation -- The text -- Layout and referencing -- Cuts within the text -- Translation from French -- Translation from Latin -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: a defence of justice and freedom -- Education, life and times -- The political ideas which Bayle opposed -- The political ideas which Bayle supported -- Values -- Chronology -- Bibliography -- Further reading -- On Bayle as a political and moral philosopher -- On the general background of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Scientific background to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Selected bibliography -- Works published before 1760 -- Works published since 1906 -- Project for a Critical Dictionary -- Dissertation -- VI Reply to certain difficulties The first difficulty: that the work might make enemies -- VII The second difficulty: that it will censure very trivial faults. -- VIII The third difficulty: that it will contain useless discussions -- IX The same arguments which demonstrate the usefulness of other sciences demonstrate the usefulness of critical research -- Bodin -- Brutus -- David -- Elizabeth -- Gregory -- Hobbes -- De l'Hôpital -- Hotman -- Japan -- Juno -- Loyola -- Machiavelli -- Mâcon -- Mariana -- Navarre -- Nicole -- Ovid -- Sainctes -- Sainte-Aldegonde -- Socinus (Marianus) -- Socinus (Faustus) -- Synergists -- Xenophanes -- Clarifications: On Atheists and On Obscenities -- First Clarification: On Atheists -- Fourth Clarification: On Obscenities -- Index.