The Meaning of the War: Life & Matter in Conflict
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The Meaning of the War - Herbert Wildon Carr
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Title: The Meaning of the War
Life & Matter in Conflict
Author: Henri Bergson
Commentator: H. Wildon Carr
Release Date: November 20, 2005 [EBook #17111]
Language: English
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THE MEANING
OF THE WAR
LIFE & MATTER IN CONFLICT
BY HENRI BERGSON
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
H. WILDON CARR
LONDON
T. FISHER UNWIN LTD.
ADELPHI TERRACE
English translation first published June 1915
Second impression, July 1915
Third impression, August 1915
(All rights reserved)
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
This little volume contains the discourse delivered by M. Bergson as President of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques at its annual public meeting on December 12, 1914. It is the address which preceded the announcement of the prizes and awards bestowed by the Academy. It is now issued in book form with the consent of the author, and his full appreciation of the object, to give it the widest circulation. Although it is brief, it is a message addressed directly to the heart of our people in the crisis of war. To it is added a short article on the same theme, contributed to the Bulletin des Armées de la République, November 4, 1914.
It has been said that war, with all its terrible evils, is the occasion of at least one good which humanity values as above price: it inspires great poetry. On the other hand, it seems to crush philosophy. Many may think that in this message it is poetry to which M. Bergson is giving expression. It is, however, from the depth of his philosophy that the inspiration is drawn. The full significance of the doctrines he has been teaching, and their whole moral and political bearing, are brought into clear light, focussed, as it were, on the