UNDER THE APPLE-TREES 
philosophers fight shy of it, I hear, probably because 
it discredits or limits pure intellectualism as giving 
us the key to the real inwardness of life; we enter 
into this mystery only through spirit, — real sym- 
pathy or intuition, — and not through our logical 
faculties. Men who attack the problem of living 
matter with the same tools which they use upon the 
problem of dead matter, — namely, our logical un- 
derstanding, — will not, according to Bergson, get 
very far. 
The flexible, sympathetic, and intuitive type of 
mind, the type that finds expression in art, in litera- 
ture, in religion, and in all creative work, will take 
more naturally and kindly to Bergson than the rig- 
idly scientific and logical mind. 
In this shining stream of ideas and images that 
flows through Professor Bergson’s pages, or from his 
mouth in the lecture-room, the strictly scientific 
man will probably find little to interest him. He 
may approve of it as literature and philosophy, but 
he is pretty sure to feel that unwarranted liberties 
have been taken with scientific conclusions. He will 
deny the validity of the principal actor in the Berg- 
sonian drama of evolution; the cosmic spirit, as 
something apart from and independent of cosmic 
matter, has no place in his categories; matter and 
the laws of matter are all-sufficient for his purpose. 
He must keep on the solid ground of the verifiable. 
Apparently, to Huxley consciousness is as strictly 
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