This book is an exhibition of human activity, and at the same time an exhibition of the decisive methods and compelling arguments that have emerged from the minds of free people in all ages. The book has established the boundaries that separate what should be for Caesar and what should be for God. Let us be guided by these boundaries that have been established by minds innocent of bias. Insight into society, capable of separation and distinction.
Professor Bury has traced the history of the mind in Europe from the Greeks until now, and as we walk with him we see the manifestations of mental activity, including science, art, and philosophy, struggling with its opponents from those with religious authority and temporal authority, defeating them at one time and at other times defeating it, but humanity has been destined to win by the struggle of its heroes. The mind in the end must settle firmly in that country that shed its blood for freedom.