Charles Maurras offers a critique "of the evolution of the status of Intelligence in contact with modernity, of its progressive submission to Gold".

[4] Charles Maurras denounces "the historical destitution of the artistic elites, passing from an enlightened prince's patronage to the purely interested and speculative power, more vulgar and tinged with "cosmopolitanism", of the rich owners of the press organs, thus denouncing a de facto monopoly of the "Gold" on Thought and Aesthetics".

"[8] This book contributes to the foundation of the "intellectual magisterium exercised by Maurras in the 1910s and 1920s, resulting in a revival of the monarchist idea after decades of decline".

In his dedication to his friend René-Marc Ferry at the beginning of the book, Charles Maurras writes this famous formula:Any desperation in politics is absolute folly.On December 20, 1926, Pope Pius XI ordered Catholics to break with Action Française and published the decree of the congregation of the Index of January 29, 1914, which condemned seven works by Maurras, including L'Avenir de l'intelligence.

[10] The poet and playwright Thomas Stearns Eliot insert a quote in French from L’Avenir de l’intelligence in his poem Coriolan, "which he regards as a master book whose influences are largely found in his For Lancelot Andrewes".