THE SCALE AFTER THE PURSE allows one to see that after aristocratic
governance—that is, governance during the heroic age—came
governance belonging to the human age: of these, the first kind is popular
government, in which peoples eventually understood that our rational nature— that is, our true human nature—is equally in all human beings; natural equality of this sort (through causes meditated upon in the ideal eternal history and encountered point for point in Roman history) drew the heroes step by step into the civil equality of popular republics, which is signified by the BALANCE because in popular republics, as the Greeks used to say, the course of everything is determined by lot, or put in the balance.