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"Byblos...an open window on far-off misty times when
man for the first time used the fecundity of the
earth and for that very reason found himself
spiritually engaged with the forces of life, death
and renewal." |
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Julian
Huxley |
All those who endeavour to safeguard the forces of life,
death and renewal in this city thousands of years old have a
right to our encouragement and admiration. More than
anywhere else the very dead themselves live in the spirit
and in the heart of
each of those surviving. So it is from year to year and from
generation to generation, and I find that it is useful, and
even necessary, that they should figure in the pages of
history, the mausoleums and the foundations which are
written or which are raised to their memory.
So it is with Louis Cardahi, who loved Byblos and who left
to his wife and to his family the task of perpetuating both
his memory and his action.
The Louis Cardahi Foundation now being born has been created
out of homage to a man who deployed the most meritorious
efforts to bring the town to life again as in the centuries
of its past, in the countless examples that it gives both to
Lebanese and to foreigners. |
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