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S1E13:Heroic Materialism

Civilisation

18 May 1969TV-G

Kenneth Clark concludes his history of civilization by considering the ways in which the advances of industry during the past hundred years have been linked to an equally remarkable increase in humanitarianism. The achievement of engineers and scientists has been matched by the work of great reformers. As Clark notes, the concept of kindness only became important in fairly recent times.