Cardinal Manning summarizes the purpose of this book: "These pages are intended to complete, in outline, the subject of the Lectures on the Four Great Evils of the Day. In speaking of those evils, I was often aware that the positive truths ought to have been stated first, and that the Sovereignty of God must be understood before the Revolt of Man can be measured, These Lectures, like the last, are printed as they were taken down at the time. Believing the truths and principles contained in them to be of vital moment always, and more than ever in these days, I let them go with all their faults, in the hope that some one with more ability and greater leisure will fill up the out1ine I have tried to draw." This work consists of six lectures: The Sovereignty of God over the Intellect of Man The Sovereignty of God over the Will of Man The Sovereignty of God over Society The Sovereignty of the Divine Head of the Church The Sovereignty of the Church Derived From Its Divine Head The Sovereignty of God over the Course of the World