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The Reign of Quantity and The Signs of the TimesThis is not the place for a detailed examination of these theories, but attention must at least be called to certain features closely connected with the subject of this book. The first is their вЂevolutionism’, which remains unbroken and is carried to an extreme, for all reality is placed exclusively within вЂbecoming’, involving the formal denial of all immutable principle, and consequently of all metaphysics; hence their вЂfleeting’ and inconsistent quality, which really affords, in contrast with the rationalist and materialist вЂsolidification’, something like a prefiguration of the dissolution of all things in the final chaos. A significant example is found in Bergson’s view of religion, which is set out appropriately enough in a work of his exemplifying the вЂfinal state’ mentioned above.[133] Not that there is really anything new in that work, for the origins of the thesis maintained are in fact very simple: in this field all modern theories have as a common feature the desire to bring religion down to a purely human level, which amounts to denying it, consciously or otherwise, since it really represents a refusal to take account of what is its very essence; and Bergson’s conception does not differ from the others in that respect ...» |
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