We continually re-read the classics in order to evaluate more maturely the gains and losses of our choices within an historical perspective. Our appraisal is made through the prism of the logic governing the original foundations and of that governing the way in which we receive them at each moment. We read the texts to measure ourselves against their meanings and we introduce our time into their spiritual duration as a mode of questioning, so as to give form to this duration and to recognise the value element inherent therein. The demand for power or for development assumes dimensions of activity in the perspective of a continual self-transcendence. This means that, while we are rooted in the finite world of nature, we do not rest on it, but stretch out towards the ideal infinite, the good beyond essence, and culture “produces” as its prime product not quantitative magnitudes, but more refined individuals