Kenneth Clark's Civilisation 07: Grandeur and Obedience

Life, living, dying, death. I'm fiercely catholic without being Roman catholic, so I try not let myself down by avoiding being a real participant in life's struggles. Of importance here is that one needs to avoid dying in death first. For one, I always sensed that the past really defines us all. Take the Counter-Reformation as an example. Without lives lived then like that of Theresa of Avila and John of the Cross, or even that of Ignatius of Loyola and Caravaggio, we'd be living a much poorer one ourselves. However, it's also true that I haven't yet read a decent enough answer to the query posed by Kenneth Clark at the end of this episode of Civilisation as well: "I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room"
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