Description
My basic idea in writing this biography was succinctly expressed by the anthropologist Josef Pieper: "People need to be remembered more than they need to be taught. He comes to harm not only by neglecting to learn, but also by forgetting and losing something indispensable."
We do not simply study our past, we inherit it. And inheritance not only entails property rights, but also duties of trusteeship as the property of those born after us or not yet born. So each of us is a kind of pontiff, a bridge builder between the past and the future.
