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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:03.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man is a singular creature.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.42,0:00:08.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He has a set of gifts that make him unique among the animals:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.81,0:00:14.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that, unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.42,0:00:17.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- he is the shaper of the landscape.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.26,0:00:29.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every landscape in the world is full of exact and beautiful adaptations,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.42,0:00:36.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by which an animal fits into its environment like one cog-wheel into another. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.42,0:00:42.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But nature - that is, evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.31,0:00:47.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the contrary, he has a rather crude survival kit;
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.06,0:00:55.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet - this is the paradox of the human condition - one that fits him to all environments.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.01,0:01:04.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His imagination, his reason, his emotional subtlety and toughness,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.42,0:01:10.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,make it possible for him not to accept the environment but to change it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.89,0:01:18.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that series of inventions, by which man from age to age has remade his environment,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.80,0:01:26.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a different kind of evolution - not biological, but cultural evolution.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.66,0:01:34.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks "The Ascent of Man".\N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.18,0:01:48.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In these paintings the hunter was made familiar with dangers which he knew he had to face but to which he had not yet come.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.76,0:01:53.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the hunter was brought here into the secret dark
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.34,0:01:57.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the light was suddenly flashed on the pictures,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.31,0:02:01.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he saw the bison as he would have to face him.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.56,0:02:04.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The moment of fear was made present to him;
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.94,0:02:16.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his spear-arm flexed with an experience which he would have and which he needed not to be afraid of.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.30,0:02:24.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that the power that we see expressed here for the first time is the power of the foward-looking imagination.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.16,0:02:32.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The imagination is a telescope in time, we are looking back at the experience of the past.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.13,0:02:40.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The men who made these paintings, the men who were present, looked through that telescope forward.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.18,0:02:45.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They looked along the ascent of man
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.94,0:02:56.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because what we call cultural evolution is essentially a constant growing and widening of the human imagination.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.42,0:03:05.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The men who made the weapons and the men who made the paintings were doing the same thing
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.56,0:03:20.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- anticipating a future as only man can do, inferring what is to come from what is here.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.42,0:03:33.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All over these caves the print of the hand says that: 'This is my mark. This is man.'\N
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.66,0:04:17.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are all afraid - for our confidence, for the future, for the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.47,0:04:21.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is the nature of the human imagination.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.80,0:04:34.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.54,0:04:41.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The personal commitment of a man to his skill,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.47,0:04:49.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the intellectual commitment and the emotional commitment working together as one,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.05,0:04:53.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has made the Ascent of Man.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.70,0:05:34.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man is unique not because he does science, \N
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.55,0:05:37.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and his is unique not because he does art,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.78,0:05:45.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.