"We were born in ancient Greece – we of the West. There was our arche – our foundation, our genesis, the seed out of which our generic self would grow. It made archaeologists of us all, in the quest to know ourselves. Not, of course, archaeologists in the narrow sense, limited to old fragments of stone, bronze and pot. This has almost become a truism, so many have said it, and over many generations...The foundation lives on, in the blood of anybody born into the West. They must learn to know it, in order to know themselves"
Μια μικροσκοπική «βιβλιοθήκη», η οποία καταγράφει την πολιτικο-πολιτισμική εξελικτική δίοδο που ακολουθήθηκε από τη νεότερη εποχή.