5"^ AN IS. 



" \\\-r will was Lcbendig's erkennen uiul beschreiben 

 Sin-In erst <K-ii < icist herauszutreiben ; 

 Dann Iiat cr die Tbeile in seiner Hand, 

 Fehlt leider nur das geistige Band." 



Xor is the intellect able to proceed in any other manner, and that her 

 \\avs are right and justifiable is shown by her triumphs. To extoll 

 these in this place is unnecessary, but it should be remarked that the 

 intellect, as IJergson has so beautifully shown, was evolved as an instru- 

 ment of action and fabrication, and not for the purpose of under- 

 standing or explaining an inorganic flux or movement, much less a 

 durational and creative flux, like that which we call life. 1 



The intuitionist, in dealing with the behavior of animals, proceeds 

 along the path of aesthetic insight, sympathy and introspective knowl- 

 edge of our own internal processes. His method is, therefore, essen- 

 tially psychological and metaphysical. He does not deal with things 

 or quantities, but with the living creative movement as immediately 

 experienced in his own consciousness. He attempts to place himself 

 en rapport with the organism and to move in the stream of its vital 

 current. Being an animal organism himself, he may, therefore, be 

 said to feel something of what must be taking place in other animals. 

 This experience cannot be expressed, or can be expressed only through 

 indirect or artistic channels, because language is essentially a work of 

 the intellect. Thus the intellectual course is definite and concise, but 

 its prime object is to eventuate in action or practice, whereas the 

 intuitional course is vague, contemplative and ineffable, but is nearer 

 reality. 



To the narrow scientific mind the intuitional method of contem- 

 plating animal behavior has always been as great an abomination as is 

 the self-sufficient, geometrical and mechanical method of the scientist 

 to the nature lover. Both methods, when carried to extremes, lead 

 to false or inane, or, at best, very partial interpretations the scientific 

 to a kind of animal phoronomy, like the reflex-theories of Bethe and 



" Modern science, no less than ancient science, proceeds according to the 

 cinematographic method. It cannot do otherwise; all science is subject to this 

 law. It is, in fact, of the essence of science, to manipulate signs, which it 

 substitutes for the objects themselves. These signs undoubtedly differ from 

 those of languages in their greater precision and higher efficacity, but they are 

 none the less subject to the general condition of the sign, which is to denote 

 a fixed aspect of reality under an arrested form. In order to think movement, 

 an incessantly renewed effort of the mind is necessary. Signs are made for the 

 purpose of dispensing with this effort by substituting for the moving continuity 

 of things an artificial recomposition which is their equivalent in practice and 

 has the advantage of being easily manipulated." Henri Bergson, " L'fivolution 

 Creatrice," 4th ed., Paris, Felix Alcan, 1908, p. 356. See also the other works 

 of this remarkable philosopher: " Essai sur les Bounces Immediates de la 

 Conscience." 6th ed.. 1908. and " Matiere et Memoire," 5th ed., 1908. 



