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Civilisation
Season 1 · Episode 11
The Worship of Nature
8.050mMay 4, 1969
Belief in the divinity of nature, Clark argues, usurped Christianity's position as the chief creative force in Western civilisation and ushered in the Romantic movement. Here Clark visits Tintern Abbey, the Alps, and there discusses the landscapes of Turner and Constable.
Episodes
- Episode 1The Skin of Our Teeth
- Episode 2The Great Thaw
- Episode 3Romance and Reality
- Episode 4Man: The Measure of all Things
- Episode 5The Hero as Artist
- Episode 6Protest and Communication
- Episode 7Grandeur and Obedience
- Episode 8The Light of Experience
- Episode 9The Pursuit of Happiness
- Episode 10The Smile of Reason
- Episode 11The Worship of Nature
- Episode 12The Fallacies of Hope
- Episode 13Heroic Materialism