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he seems to adhere to a complete correspondence of the 

 psychical and physical, unlike Wundt, who does not con- 

 sider that a complete parallelism is either a tenable or 

 a useful conception. His main idea rests thus upon an 

 attempt to bring what he considers the characteristic 

 features of the physical and mental — motion on the one 

 side, ideas on the other — together under the unifying 

 conception of force ; whereas in Wundt's system the 

 distinction of substance and process, of physical and 

 psychical causality, forms a leading conception. 

 ^ „ 82. Influenced by Fouillee, the suffsfestive writings of 



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Jean Marie Guyau contain an attempt to employ an 

 enlarged conception of Life as a definition of the pro- 

 gressive principle in history and society, and to supersede 

 with it the traditional views both in ethics and religion. 

 In this respect he goes further than Fouill^e, who does 

 not take up to these traditional mental agencies the 

 same radical position. But Guyau, whose career was 

 prematurely ended, has, less than other prominent recent 

 thinkers in France, given a systematic development to 

 his central idea. His writings are, nevertheless, as we 

 have had occasion to see in earlier chapters, original and 

 important in the history of modern thought. 



The most important of modern thinkers in France is 

 M. Henri Bergson. His earlier works, much appreciated 

 in his own country, remained little known outside of it. 

 Lately, however, his recent volume, with the suggestive 

 title 'Involution Cr^atrice,' has made him everywhere 

 known as a thinker whose original views require and 

 deserve patient study to be fully grasped and appreciated. 

 His earlier smaller works, as well as his contributions to 



H. Bergson. 



