Civilisation (1969) Part 10 of 13 - The Smile of Reason

Once again Kenneth Clark points to past achievements and real giants of intellect that should cheer us no end. Voltaire, for one, because he's the actual representation of the Age of Reason. Never a haha but always a smile. The smile of reason on that face was indeed very dandy but still also stern looking. It needed to be, because intellectuals at that time believed in the natural law, in justice for all, and social toleration, and that's not bad for a society bend to only look out after oneself. The comparision to today's society, lets say a group of church going people who think that they can deduce righteous truths out of only blind faith, and who believe that homosexuality should have near biblical punishments and that today's society is wrong only because of their knowledge gained out of reading solely the bible, well, is indeed shocking. Where are those giants of progress from the past nowadays? Sleeping till the right moment is near is my own personal thought on the matter. But as Christians shouldn't they know that Christ himself told us to stand up for the least and weakest amongs ust? Yes, we're still far off from an ideal society.
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