ABSTRACT
The importance of H. L. Bergson can be summed up in a few words. It is that it was he who first saw and insisted on the importance of time, and that he was responsible for the awakening of modern philosophy from its dogmatic slumbers in this respect. Bergson sometimes uses 'time' in a narrow sense, as meaning spatialized or clock time, as opposed to real time, or duree. Justifiably or not, then, Bergson extended the original distinction between spatialized time and durée to include other distinctions, though he would never have admitted, in consequence of his doctrine of interpenetration, that there was any otherness about them. He distinguishes very clearly between time in its passage and time as passed. The separate treatment of aspects which Bergson regards as interconnected may have its advantages, but it certainly has also corresponding defects, the chief of which is its piecemeal and fragmentary character.
