Only a true knowledge of the past can maintain in the conscience the feeling of a historical continuity, essential to the consolidation of a multinational State. (...) It is not indifferent for a people to engage in such an investigation, such a recognition of oneself; because, in doing so, the people in question realizes what is solid and valid in their own cultural and social structures, in their thinking in general, they also realize what is weak in them. ci and which consequently has not stood the test of time. He discovers the real extent of his borrowings, he can now define himself in a positive way on the basis of indigenous criteria not imagined, but real. He has a new awareness of his values and can now define his cultural mission, not passionately, but in an objective way, because he sees better the cultural values that he is most suitable, given his state of evolution, to develop and bring to other peoples.