The note of the first is religion, of the second practical sagacity, of the third warfare and inventive skill.

This division actually anticipates the synthesis of Hegel.

[Footnote: Hegel's division is (1) the Oriental, (2) a, the Greek, b, the Roman, and (3) the Germanic worlds.] But the interesting point is that it is based on anthropological considerations, in which climate and geography are taken into account; and, notwithstanding the crudeness of the whole exposition and the intrusion of astrological arguments, it is a new step in the study of universal history.

[Footnote: Climates and geography.

The fullest discussion will be found in the Republique, Book v.cap.i.Here Bodin anticipated Montesquieu.