The book is a reprint of a copy from the famous biographical library of F.F. Pavlenkov, published in Russia in the late XIX - early XX centuries, in a new spelling. It tells about the life and philosophical activities of Sakia-muni (religious reformer of India), Confucius (Chinese thinker and reformer), Savonarola (preacher, fighter for morality by personal example), Torquemada ("defender of the faith," inquisitor, cruel persecutor of heretics), Loyola (founder of the Jesuit order).