"...historical research is not to discover the past, much less to imitate it, but to recover the integrity of the pristine tradition that the past may well have obscured. The aim is not to restore the past but to overcome it. For history is not the past, but a genetic vision of the present, a present seen in continuity with its roots. It is precisely those who do not know their past that are incapable of true, organic change. They remain victims of the latest cliche, prisoners of present usage because they have no objective standard against which to measure it."
+ Archimandrite Robert Taft
