128 HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTURES 



how especially could our science make us re- 

 nounce our intuitions, if these intuitions are some- 

 thing like instinct an instinct conscious, refined, 

 spiritualised and if instinct is still nearer life 

 than intellect and science? Intuition and intel- 

 lect do not oppose each other, save where intuition 

 refuses to become more precise by coming into 

 touch with facts scientifically studied, and where 

 intellect, instead of confining itself to science 

 proper (that is, to what can be inferred from facts 

 or proved by reasoning), combines with this an 

 unconscious and inconsistent metaphysic which 

 in vain lays claim to scientific pretensions. The 

 future seems to belong to a philosophy which will 

 take into account the whole of what is given : 1 

 shall have attained the object I proposed if I have 

 succeeded in indicating to you, however vaguely, 

 the direction in which such a philosophy would 

 lead us. 



HENRI BERGSON. 



PARIS. 



