 In the 1930s, "Esprit" was the main mouthpiece of the Personalists and of the Non-conformists of the 1930s.A presentation of the magazine by its authors in 1933 stated that it opposed the "compromission" of spiritual values with the established order (which Mounier called "established disorder") and aimed at denouncing their "exploitation by the powers of Money, in the social regime, in the government, in the press, etc.