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along with the advancing wave of Time, which as it 

 moves creates." 



Now, however fanciful this conception, however 

 dangerous the exaltation of instinct over calm reason, 

 it is impossible to overlook its analogy with the corre- 

 sponding tendency in psychology. There, too, the 

 reason of man has been found wanting as a complete 

 explanation of his conduct, his character or his beliefs. 

 Once more Bergson is in close touch with scientific 

 tendencies, though many will hold that he carries them 

 to an unwarranted extreme. 



It is of interest to note that Bergson's philosophy is 

 used by some theologians as an instrument of attack 

 on rationalism, and by the revolutionary syndicalists 

 of the Continent as a justification for instinctive 

 attacks on the social order, when they have no reasoned 

 account to give of what could take its place. So close 

 in modern life are the cross-connections between 

 different branches of human endeavour. 



It is possible that danger to science as to society 

 lies ahead. The dominance of the Universalist 

 Roman Church nearly stifled the incipient science 

 of the Northern race at the Renaissance; the 

 dominance of the Universal proletariat, which some 

 dread and others acclaim a proletariat not dis- 

 similar in race to the Southern rulers of the Roman 

 Church may threaten in the future the freedom of 

 enquiry, the fearless exercise of reason, the full de- 

 velopment of personality, that form the life-blood 

 of the Northern race and its scientific achievement. 

 The Roman Church saw its dogmas threatened by the 

 new learning, and invoked torture and stake in an 

 attempt to consolidate its forces. If the same race 



