Creative Evolution

Authors
- Henri Bergson
Publisher
- Interactive Media

Editions: 4
1 Ratings: 1
Language: English
Format
Category: Non-Fiction

The history of the evolution of life, incomplete as it yet is, already reveals to us how the intellect has been formed, by an uninterrupted progress, along a line which ascends through the vertebrate series up to man. It shows us in the faculty of understanding an appendage of the faculty of acting, a more and more precise, more and more complex and supple adaptation of the consciousness of living beings to the conditions of existence that are made for them. Hence should result this consequence that our intellect, in the narrow sense of the word, is intended to secure the perfect fitting of our body to its environment, to represent the relations of external things among themselves—in short, to think matter.

Translators: Arthur Mitchell

Release date

Ebook: 27 March 2021