XIII - Summary and Conclusions

Nunes presents a causal chain showing that national salvation depends on moral criterion development, which enables proper political will, which leads to good governance, stable government, public confidence, wealth development, and finally balanced state budgets.

Nunes argues that just as the Church denies holy ground to suicides, history condemns the names of peoples who cause their own ruin to common graves, implying Portugal faces potential self-destruction.

Nunes exhorts the nation to have faith in Portugal's salvation as the means to achieve it, while accepting that if the country must fall, it should do so having lived honorably and died bravely.