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    The Meaning of the War: Life & Matter in Conflict
    The Meaning of the War: Life & Matter in Conflict
    The Meaning of the War: Life & Matter in Conflict
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    The Meaning of the War: Life & Matter in Conflict

    By Herbert Wildon Carr and Henri Bergson

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Meaning of the War - Herbert Wildon Carr

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Meaning of the War, by Henri Bergson

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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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

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MEANING OF THE WAR ***

      Produced by Thierry Alberto, Henry Craig, Jeannie Howse

      and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at

      http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images

      generously made available by The Internet Archive)

      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

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