| 0.13 | | Acknowledgements |
| | | {titolo} |
| 1 | 1. | The argument |
| 11 | 2. | The doctrine of necessity |
| 16 | 3. | Public amateurs, secret bureaucrats |
| 27 | 4. | Bureaux |
| 35 | 5. | The sweet despotism of reason |
| 47 | 6. | The quantum of sickness |
| 55 | 7. | The granary of science |
| 65 | 8. | Suicide is a kind of madness |
| 73 | 9. | The experimental basis of the philosophy of legislation |
| 81 | 10. | 10 Facts without authenticity, without detail, without control, and without value |
| 87 | 11. | By what majority? |
| 95 | 12. | The law of large numbers |
| 105 | 13. | Regimental chests |
| 115 | 14. | Society prepares the crimes |
| 125 | 15. | The astronomical conception of society |
| 133 | 16. | The mineralogical conception of society |
| 142 | 17. | The most ancient nobility |
| 150 | 18. | Cassirer's thesis |
| 160 | 19. | The normal state |
| 170 | 20. | As real as cosmic forces |
| 180 | 21. | The autonomy of statistical law |
| 189 | 22. | A chapter from Prussian statistics |
| 200 | 23. | A universe of chance |
| 216 | | Notes |
| 257 | | Index |
