In 1984 the Ascent of Man was a direct inspiration for Sir Michael Tippet's vast oratorio The Mask of Time, which also has the aim to overview the history of the human species (see left-hand margin).

In 1978 the collected Bronowski papers were installed at the Thomas Fisher Library at the University of Toronto, with an address made by Aubrey Singer (see left-hand margin).

A retrospective conference was held at the Salk Institute in 1985 (see left-hand margin).

This website was institued in 1997, and the perspective of the Ascent of Man was used in the Prom concert season for 1999, beginning with a performance of Tippett's Mask and including interval features on Bronowski and his series.

"I see now that the problem of man's status between the world and himself has haunted me since the difficult days of boyhood. All that I have written, though it has seemed to me so different from year to year, turns to the same centre: the uniqueness of man that grows out of his struggle (and his gift) to understand both nature and himself."

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