Sándor Márai left to us the following: “Heading eastward,
Hungary is the last cultural area, where the European man
has the same common fate with everything that represents
the past, present and responsibility of European Christian
literacy.” Hungarians feel alike when listening to a lecture at
Sorbonne in Paris, and the same spirit speaks to a
Stockholmian entering the Esztergom Basilica as in the
Uppsala Cathedral. “Western civilization in Hungary is not
an import, but the elemental component of its past, present
and the function of its role.” Do we really teach and learn
what our professional duty is? Or the vow taken at the
ceremonial acceptance of the diploma is only a formality,
meaning that not keeping it has no consequences at all? How
could it involve responsibilities if it does not even cause a
twinge of conscience? Nevertheless, our heritage is rich
because the “Hungarian history of spiritual knowledge
(Geisteswissenschaft) has always responded particularly
and accountably to the big European questions.”