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Creative Evolution

by Henri Bergson (1859–1941)

7 chapters, about 113,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. TRANSLATOR'S NOTE 300 words
2. INTRODUCTION 1,700 words
3. THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE--MECHANISM AND TELEOLOGY 28,500 words
4. CHAPTER II 25,700 words
5. CHAPTER III 25,200 words
6. CHAPTER IV 30,800 words
7. INDEX 600 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Animal
• Archimedes
• Becoming (philosophy)
• Consciousness
• Conservation of energy
• Energy
• Evolution
• Fragment (logic)
• Illusion
• Immutability (theology)
• Intuition
• Intuition (Bergson)
• Life
• Mechanism (philosophy)
• Metaphysics
• Mutation
• Physicist
• Sign (semiotics)
• Solar System
• Teleology
• View (Buddhism)
• Vitality
• Void (astronomy)

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