ABSTRACT
The publication of Charles Darwin's famous work on The Origin of Species in 1859, the conception of Evolution has become familiar and has won general acceptance in all thinking minds. Evolution is now a household word, but the actual study of evolutionary process has been the work of comparatively few. Henri Bergson's Creative Evolution, his largest and best known work, appeared in 1907. Some of the stock phrases of the earlier writers on Evolution were: "adaptation to environment," "selection" and "variation," and a grave problem was presented by this last. The evolution of life cannot be explained as merely a series of adaptations to accidental circumstances. Bergson turns to a consideration of Life and Matter in the evolutionary process, and their precise relation to one another. In the lectures on The Nature of the Soul, Bergson referred to the "Pathway of the evolutionary process" as being a "Way to Personality.".
