From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



we desire, and will, and act, from the whole of that 

 past, including the original bent of the soul.' 



These general ideas being admitted, let us examine 

 more thoroughly the mechanism of Creative Evolution. 

 This evolution does not take place in a direct line. 

 From the centre of origin there flow out many lines, at 

 first interpenetrating, close, and parallel, which, according 

 to their degrees of evolution, then separate and diverge 

 like the trail of a group of rockets. 



On the earth the chief lines of evolution end in the 

 creation of plant life, of instinctive animal life, and 

 intellectual human life. These forms are absolutely 

 distinct; there is a chasm between the plant and the 

 animal, and between the animal and Man. 



M. Bergson writes: 



* The capital error which has vitiated naturalistic 

 philosophy since the time of Aristotle, has been to 

 see in vegetative, instinctive, and rational life three 

 successive degrees of one and the same tendency, 

 whereas they are three divergent directions of one 

 activity which has become tripartite in process of 

 its increase. The difference between them is one 

 of essential nature, not of degree/ 



He says, further: 



* Intelligence and instinct represent two divergent 

 and equally elegant solutions of one and the same 

 problem; . . . between animals and Man there is 

 no longer a difference of degree, but of kind. 



To meet the objection that intelligence is discoverable 

 in animals and instincts in Man, M. Bergson says: 



' Having at first interpenetrated one another, 

 Intelligence and Instinct retain something of their 

 common origin. Neither the one nor the other are 



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