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I can't yet trace its proper relations to the aspects of experience of which you do not treat.It needs much building out in the direction of Ethics,Cosmology and Cosmogogy,Psychogenesis,etc. ,before one can apprehend it fully.That I should take it in so much more easily than I did four years ago shows that even at the age of sixty one's mind can grow--a pleasant thought.

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I can't yet trace its proper relations to the aspects of experience of which you do not treat.It needs much building out in the direction of Ethics,Cosmology and Cosmogogy,Psychogenesis,etc. ,before one can apprehend it fully.That I should take it in so much more easily than I did four years ago shows that even at the age of sixty one's mind can grow--a pleasant thought.

It is a work of exquisite genius.It makes a sort of Copernican revolution as much as Berkelet's "Principles" or Kant's "Critical" did,and will probably ,as it gets better and better known,open a new era of philosophical discussion.It fills my mind with all sorts of new questions and hypothses and brings the old into a most agreeable liquefaction.

——William James(Dec.14,1902)

亨利·柏格森（1859-1941），法國(guó)哲學(xué)家。曾任法蘭西學(xué)院哲學(xué)教授、道德與政治科學(xué)院年度主席和法蘭西科學(xué)院院士。其哲學(xué)體系中的基本觀念“創(chuàng)化論”最富有個(gè)人思維特色。他的著作文思綿密、比喻生動(dòng)，富有詩(shī)的氣韻。1927年，因其著作的文學(xué)造詣，被授予諾貝爾文學(xué)獎(jiǎng)。