152 CREATIVE INVOLUTION 



While I agree most profoundly with Bergson that 

 the intellect is dependent upon the intuition for the 

 perception which inspires and directs its working, I 

 would emphasise as he does not that the intuition can 

 rise to new visions only if the intellect has given full 

 organisation to the data of experience. To this fact 

 is due the great significance of science for the race. 

 Such organisation causes matter to become progres- 

 sively spatialised for consciousness; hence it follows 

 that while space is a form of our thought it is a form 

 of our own evolving. [That our consciousness is lim- 

 ited to three dimensions means simply that the intel- 

 lect has progressed thus far only in its conquest of 

 matter. But now that science is postulating a 

 fourth dimension for its working we may presume 

 that the collective mind is getting ready to take the 

 leap upward to that higher level of insight denom- 

 inated cosmic consciousness. 



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" HOW DIVERS PEESONS WITNESS IN EACH MAN, 



Bergson has shown that consciousness, in order to 

 move in the direction of life, has to detach itself from 

 the already-made and attach itself to the being-made. 

 The former is the zone of distinct consciousness, the 

 realm of science ; the latter is that higher realm of the 

 spirit which we know only through the intuition. 



