The conclusion to this work mocks Bayle and Polybius for imagining that there could be nations that wouldn't need religion, because the maxims of philosophers are useless to make people be virtuous.  It begins with an "explanation of the picture placed as frontispiece," in which we learn that the "lady with the winged temples" on top of a globe represents metaphysics, while the "luminous triangle with the seeing eye" is of course God.  Its conclu
The conclusion to this work mocks Bayle and Polybius for imagining that there could be nations that wouldn't need religion, because the maxims of philosophers are useless to make people be virtuous.  It begins with an "explanation of the picture placed as frontispiece," in which we learn that the "lady with the winged temples" on top of a globe represents metaphysics, while the "luminous triangle with the seeing eye" is of course God.  Its conclusion describes an "eternal natural commonwealth" which was "ordained by divine providence," and follows the fifth book, which considers the "latest barbaric history" and the connection between "feudal law" and "ancient Roman law."  The fourth book claims that ancient jurisprudence was "a severe kind of poetry," while poetic wisdom is the subject of Books 2 and 3, the latter of which deals with the "discovery of the true Homer."  First published in 1725, it proposes a cyclical theory of history.  FTP, name this major work of Giambattista Vico.
The conclusion to this work mocks Bayle and Polybius for imagining that there could be nations that wouldn't need religion, because the maxims of philosophers are useless to make people be virtuous.  
The New Science or La scienza nuova