Bergson And the Modern Spirit An Essay in Constructive Thought
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Since the past is MODERN SPIRIT 171 ever swelling with the addition of the present, it follows that history does not repeat itself and that life is constantly confronted by new situa- tions. The adjustments it has to make in con- sequence are not passive, but are of the nature of solutions of a problem. Evolution is there- fore creative, which in a block-universe, a cos- mic mechanism, it could not possibly be.
The reader of Bergson cannot fail to see that, for his author, automatism is the ene...my that ever threatens the life force. This point is urged in many vivid pages. " Consciousness, " he says, " is synonymous with invention and with freedom. Now, in the animal, invention is never anything but a variation on the theme of routine. Shut up in the habits of the spe- cies, it succeeds, no doubt, in enlarging them by its individual initiative ; but it escapes automa- tism only for an instant, for just the time to create a new automatism. The gates of its prison close as soon as they are opened ; by pull- ing at its chain it succeeds only in stretching it.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Since the past is MODERN SPIRIT 171 ever swelling with the addition of the present, it follows that history does not repeat itself and that life is constantly confronted by new situa- tions. The adjustments it has to make in con- sequence are not passive, but are of the nature of solutions of a problem. Evolution is there- fore creative, which in a block-universe, a cos- mic mechanism, it could not possibly be.
The reader of Bergson cannot fail to see that, for his author, automatism is the ene...my that ever threatens the life force. This point is urged in many vivid pages. " Consciousness, " he says, " is synonymous with invention and with freedom. Now, in the animal, invention is never anything but a variation on the theme of routine. Shut up in the habits of the spe- cies, it succeeds, no doubt, in enlarging them by its individual initiative ; but it escapes automa- tism only for an instant, for just the time to create a new automatism. The gates of its prison close as soon as they are opened ; by pull- ing at its chain it succeeds only in stretching it.
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