From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



found in their pure state; there is no intelligence 

 in which traces of instinct are not to be found; and, 

 more especially, no instinct without a fringe of 

 intelligence/ 



But the essential characteristic of the animal is 

 instinct, and that of the man is intelligence. 



What is the part assigned to Man in the creation ? 

 His function is unique, he represents that which is 

 essential in evolution as actually realised, vegetable 

 and animal life being merely gropings after the human. 



' Everything,' says M. Bergson, * comes to pass 

 as though an undecided and impressionable being, 

 call him Man or Superman, as you will, had sought 

 to realise himself, and had succeeded in doing so 

 only at the price of leaving a part of himself by the 

 way. These residues are represented by the animal, 

 and even by the vegetable world.' 



Man only has been able to acquire consciousness. 



' In Man, consciousness breaks the chain (of 

 material needs); in Man and in Man alone, it is 

 freed. Till this point was reached life had been an 

 effort of consciousness to raise matter, and con- 

 sciousness was more or less crushed out under its 

 weight. . . . The task to be accomplished was to 

 use matter (which is necessity), to create an instru- 

 ment for liberty, to make machinery which would 

 triumph over mechanism, and to employ the deter- 

 minism of Nature to pass through the meshes of 

 the net which that determinism had spread. But 

 in all cases except that of Man, consciousness has 

 been caught in the net through which it would fain 

 have passed. 



' It has remained captive to the mechanism which 

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