From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



and active in the lower grades of Humanity; and 

 expanded and developed in the highest human types. 



It now only remains to draw a general conclusion 

 from this study of M. Bergson's concepts as set forth 

 in LfEwlution Creatrice. 



Of all its doctrines the only ones which can stand 

 criticism are those which are based on the study of 

 facts or drawn by reasoned inference from the examina- 

 tion of facts. These are the teaching on the primordial 

 cause of evolution, on the insufficiency of the classical 

 factors of selection and adaptation, and on the need for 

 recognising an essential and creative vital impulse. 



The other doctrines, based on an alleged new notion 

 of intuition, are either insufficient or inexact or, worse 

 still, are contrary to the facts. 



Whatever may be thought of M. Bergson's method, 

 and however great our admiration for his incomparable 

 talent of exposition and his persuasive eloquence, we 

 cannot find in the system of Creative Evolution a 

 solution to the great enigma. The truths which that 

 system contains are eclipsed by a proved error bearing 

 on an essential point, an error which radically vitiates 

 all his metaphysic. 



