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its present results, instead of recomposing these results 

 artificially with fragments of themselves. Such seems 

 to us to be the true function of philosophy. So under 

 stood, philosophy is not only the turning of the mind 

 homeward, the coincidence of human consciousness with 

 the living principle whence it emanates, a contact with 

 the creative effort : it is the study of becoming in 

 general, it is true evolutionism and consequently the 

 true continuation of science provided that we under 

 stand by this word a set of truths either experienced 

 or demonstrated, and not a certain new scholasticism 

 that has grown up during the latter half of the nine 

 teenth century around the physics of Galileo, as the 

 old scholasticism grew up around Aristotle. 



