362 CREATIVE EVOLUTION CHAP 



have transported us by an effort of sympathy. We 

 should no longer be asking where a moving body will 

 be, what shape a system will take, through what state a 

 change will pass at a given moment : the moments 

 of time, which are only arrests of our attention, would 

 no longer exist ; it is the flow of time, it is the very 

 flux of the real that we should be trying to -follow ^ 

 The first kind of -knowledge has the advantage of* en 

 abling us to foresee the future and of making us in some 

 measure masters of events ; in return, it retains of the 

 moving reality only eventual immobilities, that is to 

 say, views taken of it by our mind. It symbolizes the 

 real and transposes it into the human rather than- 

 expresses it. The other knowledge, if it is possible, 

 is practically useless, it will not extend our empire 

 over nature, it will even go against certain natural 

 aspirations of the intellect ; but, if it succeeds, it is 

 reality itself that it will hold in a firm and frrral 

 embrace. Not only may we thus complete the intellect 

 and its knowledge of matter by accustoming it to 

 install itself within the moving, but by developing 

 also another faculty, complementary to the intellect, 

 we may open a perspective on the other half of the 

 real. For, as soon as we are confronted with true 

 duration, we see that it means creation, and that if 

 that which is being unmade endures, it can only be 

 because it is inseparably bound to what is making 

 itself. Thus will appear the necessity of a continual 

 growth of the universe, I should say of a life of the 

 real. And thus will be seen in a new light the life 

 which we find on the surface of our planet, a life 

 directed the same way as that of the universe, and 

 inverse of materiality. To intellect, in short, there., 

 will be added intuition. 



