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> # Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.

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## More from Kenneth Clark

1. > We are so much accustomed to the humanitarian outlook that we forget how little it counted in earlier ages of civilisation. Ask any decent person in England or…

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2. > Our universe cannot even be stated symbolically. And this touches us all more directly than one might suppose. For example, artists, who have been very little …

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3. > What on earth has given opera its prestige in western civilisation - a prestige that has outlasted so many different fashions and ways of thought? Why are peop…

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