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It must be lamented, however, that Bergson's language was ever so ill defined as to encourage the many varied and conflicting views which are held regarding his doctrine of Intuition. Around this the greatest controversy has raged.
In spite, then, of M. Bergson's learning as a naturalist and his eye for the facts things Aristotle also possessed he is like Aristotle profoundly out of sympathy with nature. Aristotle was alienated from nature and any penetrating study of it by the fact that he was a disciple of Socrates, and therefore essentially a moralist and a logician.
It would be prayer time then, and after prayers the Vicar would drag himself upstairs to bed, and in the peace that slid into the room when he left it Gwenda would go on with her reading. She had her sewing in her lap and her book, Bergson's Évolution créatrice propped open before her on the table. She sewed as she read.
The main lines and general perspective of Mr Bergson's philosophy now perhaps begin to appear. Certainly I am the first to feel how powerless a slender resume really is to translate all its wealth and all its strength. At least I wish I could have contributed to making its movement, and what I may call its rhythm, clearer to perception.
Tho the more that surrounds it may be 'subconscious' to us, yet if in its 'collective capacity' it also exerts an active function, it may be conscious in a wider way, conscious, as it were, over our heads. On the relations of consciousness to action see Bergson's Matière et Mémoire, passim, especially chap. i.
Alexandra watched the shimmering pool dreamily, but eventually her eyes went back to the sorghum patch south of the barn, where she was planning to make her new pig corral. For the first three years after John Bergson's death, the affairs of his family prospered.
If the truth be told, Mr Bergson's immense scientific knowledge should be sufficient refutation. Only those who have not read the mass of carefully proved and positive discussions could give way thus to the impressions of art awakened by what is truly a magic style. But we can go further and put it better.
What is actually given and needs to be accounted for is the fact clearly focussed, with its less clearly defined fringe: Bergson's sweeping assumption of the existence of a further vast field of virtual knowledge in order to account for it, does, at first sight, seem arbitrary and unwarranted and in. need of considerable justification before it can be accepted.
There can be little doubt that this is the chief reason why Bergson's philosophy has found such an amount of acceptance in a comparatively short period.
Have we not already besides proof of this in the fact that each of us always appears in his own eyes to occupy the centre of the world he perceives? The "Riquet" of Anatole France voices Mr Bergson's view: "I am always in the centre of everything, and men and beasts and things, for or against me, range themselves around." But direct analysis leads us still more plainly to the same conclusion.
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