BERGSON'S CREATIVE EVOLUTION 



Translated from the French by <Dr. Arthur SHifchett 

 8th printing, $2.50 net, by mail $2.67. 



"Bergson's resources in the way of erudition are remark- 

 able, and in the way of expression they are simply phe- 

 nomenal. ... If anything can make hard things easy to 

 follow it is a style like Bergson's. It is a miracle and he 

 a real magician. Open Bergson and new horizons open 

 on every page you read. It tells of reality itself instead 

 of reiterating what dusty-minded professors have written 

 about what other previous professors have thought. Nothing 

 in Bergson is shopworn or at second-hand." William James. 



"A distinctive and trenchant piece of dialectic. . . . Than 

 its entrance upon the field as a well-armed and militant 

 philosophy there have been not many more memorable occur- 

 ences in the history of ideas." Nation. 



"To bring out in an adequate manner the effect which 

 Bergson's philsophy has on those who are attracted by it 

 let us try to imagine what it would have been like to have 

 lived when Kant produced his 'Critique of Pure Reason.' " 

 Hibbert Journal 



"Creative Evolution is destined, I believe, to mark an 

 epoch in the history of modern thought. The work has its 

 root in modern physical science, but it blooms and bears 

 fruit in the spirit to a degree quite unprecedented. . . . 

 Bergson is a new star in the intellectual firmament of our 

 day. He is a philosopher upon whom the spirits of both 

 literature and science have descended. In his great work 

 he touches the materialism of science to finer issues. Prob- 

 ably no other writer of our time has possessed in the same 

 measure the three gifts, the literary, the scientific, and the 

 philosophical. Bergson is a kind of chastened and spirit- 

 ualized Herbert Spencer." John Burroughs in the Atlantic 

 Monthly. 



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