All of which implies cultural history painted with the broadest of brushes: the villain of the piece is the Renaissance, that catastrophe of individualism, which gave birth at once to the hubris of the scientific mind and the desiccated spiritualism of reformed Christianity, both of which involve getting our relationship with nature wrong. "The story of the mind exiled by nature is the story of Western Man," wrote Hughes..."Our civilisation is an evolutionary error."
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