UNDER THE APPLE-TREES 
makes it of the order “‘willed’’; the other dehuman- 
izes it, and makes it of the order “automatic.” 
Both deal with mysteries, but one is a human or 
spiritual mystery, the other a scientific mystery; one 
puts a Creator behind nature, the other finds a cre- 
ator in nature, but calls it molecular attraction and 
repulsion. Tyndall pays homage to the mystery 
that lies back of all, M. Bergson pays homage to the 
freedom and plasticity, the creative activity of all. 
A mechanical movement is translation, a vital 
movement is transformation. In Bergson’s scheme 
every living thing is creating itself continually; this 
creation of self by self for self is what separates liv- 
ing matter from the non-living by a gulf. The life- 
process is indivisible, it is whole every moment. It is 
symbolized by the curve, which returns forever into 
itself, and a curve is no more made up of straight 
lines than life is made of physicochemical elements. 
The intellect working through science can only ex- 
plain the genesis of life in terms of physics and 
chemistry. “Analysis will undoubtedly resolve the 
process of organic creation into an ever-growing 
number of physicochemical phenomena, and chem- 
ists and physicists will have to do, of course, with 
nothing but these. But it does not follow that chem- 
istry and physics will ever give us the key of life.” 
To get a correct notion of life we must break with 
scientific habits of thought, we must “ go counter to 
the natural bent of the intellect.” 
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