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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），法国哲学家。曾任法兰西学院哲学教授、道德与政治科学院年度主席和法兰西科学院院士。其哲学体系中的基本观念“创化论”最富有个人思维特色。他的著作文思绵密、比喻生动，富有诗的气韵。1927年，因其著作的文学造诣，被授予诺贝尔文学奖。