Man has always been able to brandish his freedom and, in defiance of all external influences, instinct and models, accomplish new deeds. Man is free to break the grey circle of his animal-like adjustment to the environment; he is free to look upwards at the stars which do not simply look down on him; he is free, in any case, not to abandon his ideals. Not even forgetfulness and external influences stopped Perceval from spending his life in search of the Holy Grail. Perceval was not a model of consistency, his heroism was only an ideal of life. By continuing to uphold and pursue this cause, he could not fail to see what had always been there - the object of his quest. It is this link with an ideal, with the infinite which makes man free and capable of al-ways starting afresh, of taking on new responsibilities toward himself and history. Civilization is not in fact a heritage of values and forms to be defended at all costs like many, too many, Supermen maintain, but rather the result of mankind's inventiveness, a construction to be continually risked, where memory is a fertile ground for change. Those who have already decided what justice is, no longer need anyone, neither God nor human being, to attain it; all they require is power - often wielded violently - to uphold it. God wants human beings, not beasts without ideals or supermen without inventiveness; human beings who perhaps make mi-stakes, but who are free to change and create. The giants of history, the modern Supermen of blind progress and vioient justice, surrender only before an archipelago of men joi-ned together by bonds of freedom and culture.