After the Ascent

2015 | high resolution digital scan from Jacob Bronowski's 'The Ascent of Man' (1973) | 250mm x 300mm | image: David Ogle

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Scanned enlargement of the last full-stop in the text from Jacob Bronowski’s ‘The Ascent Of Man’ (1973). Like the black hole lurking at the centre of our galaxy, an inevitable endpoint to things.

[Final Paragraph] “We are all afraid – for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilisation, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. The personal commitment of a man to his skill, the intellectual commitment and the emotional commitment working together as one, has made the Ascent of Man.”