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force is a great adventure in which nothing is determined, everything 

 is in the making, thought is free. To limit all this by intellect is to 

 make the worship greater than the god. The intellect is merely the 

 Ancilla Domini. It is our greatest counsellor, a veritable genius in 

 promoting our welfare. But the world was wonderful before intellect 

 was known, and may survive any great need of it. Conceptual 

 thought was still in its infancy in the days of Plato and has grown 

 apace ever since. It has accomplished marvels and will yet accom- 

 plish more. But the soul is more than intellect, as Shakespeare is 

 greater than Newton. Only in life can we find a true philosophy of 

 life. 



Bergson has put a limit to the arrogance of science, especially to 

 its intolerable encroachments upon the realms of art, religion, poetry, 

 character, education and whatever is immediately dependent upon 

 feeling and genius. 



In the highest scientific quarters there is already a tendency to 

 limit the authority of science to its proper sphere. It is apparently 

 just the greatest thinkers in the special sciences who most readily 

 assent to Bergson's claims. Of course the small-fry will pose as the 

 defenders of the supreme sway of intellect; it makes their intellects 

 doughty champions. But just as Kant, the greatest intellect of the 

 eighteenth century, set faith and beauty above reasons, so Bergson 

 possibly the deepest and clearest and most learned thinker of our own 

 times puts intuition above intellect which is after all merely saying 

 that Shakespeare knew more about vital matters than Newton; 

 or that Browning knew more about men and women than Wundt; or 

 that wisdom is greater than knowledge; or that for the purposes of a 

 broad philosophy of life, and history, and history in its cosmic sense 

 as biology and geology, imagination and sympathy and genius may 

 carry us farther than reasoning and logical analysis. But no one 

 ranks intellect higher than Bergson or has a greater intellectual gift, 

 as all admit; it is merely that he puts intuition higher still. To put 

 it in popular phrase his God creates by aiming at great things not by 

 attending to the infinite parts into which the intellect may resolve 

 those things after they are made, just as a great poet creates by trying 



