1. Outlines of the history of the Spanish intellect from the fifth to the middle of the nineteenth century; 2. Condition of Scotland to the end of the fourteenth century; 3. Condition of Scotland in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; 4. Condition of Scotland during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; 5. An examination of the Scotch intellect during the seventeenth century; 6. An examination of the Scotch intellect during the eighteenth century.