The things written or implied in this book are simply a rough answer to the questions that concern - and sometimes torment - many of the citizens of this country, as well as many of those who left to live in a foreign land, but have not forgotten it.
- How will the new generation and the following ones live, with which institutions of public life, ideas and values?
- What did we receive in return for security, material conditions, quality of life and moral formation?
- What did we give to it from what we received from previous generations in culture, ways of life and in the natural environment?
- And with all these: how will these future generations judge us for our own actions or omissions?
[...] (from the book's preface)