Modern Science And the Illusions of Professor Bergson
The book Modern Science And the Illusions of Professor Bergson was written by author Hugh Samuel Roger Elliot Here you can read free online of Modern Science And the Illusions of Professor Bergson book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Modern Science And the Illusions of Professor Bergson a good or bad book?
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But here again the words are unin- telligible : they are false counters. To talk of a stream being humble, or making itself small is in practical life afafon de pcwler, meaning only that it is a tiny current. Again, regarding life as an effort, we do certainly speak of an effort being humble : and by this we mean a small effort, not aiming at any great results. Now, how are obstacles to be overcome by small efforts, when great efforts have failed ? If the vital impetus finds obstacles in its wa...y, I cannot see how those obstacles can be overcome by reducing the force of the impetus. Yet that is the only possible meaning that the Professor's words can carry. We are of course here in the presence of another of his elegant analogies, which sound so pretty that he has never gone down to the meaning or intelligibility of the words. We are informed that the true causes of differentiation are 'those which life bore within its bosom. ' 1 How can an impetus have a bosom ? I do not wish to be captious, but Bergson moves in a world of fancy metaphors, which must be torn ruthlessly away when the 1 Creative Evolution, p.
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