Table of contents -- Introduction: The Consequences of the Hypothesis -- On Firstness -- Originary Aesthetics and the End of Postmodernism -- Epigenetic Evolution of the Immaterial Intellect on the Originary Scene -- The Question of Originary Method: The Generative Thought Experiment -- Generative Anthropology and Bronx Romanticism -- Hamlet's Theater of Resentment -- "The reforming of Reformation itself": Public vs. private scenes of representation in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure -- The Dispensations of Moira: Matter, Mind, and Culture from Thales of Miletus to Walter Pater -- Intensity and Ambiguity in Romantic Poetics -- What is the Human? Eric Gans and the Structure of the Hypothesis -- Accusations of "Playing God" and the Anthropological Idea of God.