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Creative Evolution — Henri Bergson (trans. Arthur Mitchell, 1911)

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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.Creative Evolution (1911), ch. I, trans. Arthur Mitchell

Professor E. Creighton in the Philosophieat Review says .■ — "As a whole, an admirable piece of work : I have not seen anything lliat will compare with it as an exposi- tion of M. Bergson's thought. . . . The Bergsoiiian philosophy as expounded by M. Le Roy oftentimes seems more convincing than it does in its original form. I do not mean by this that the doctrines have been changed or modified in M. Lc Roy's exposition."

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