One wonders how this modicum is to be discovered without criticism, and is informed (still by Bergson) that “the true statement is of itself able to displace the erroneous idea, and becomes, without our having taken the trouble of refuting anyone, the best of refutations.” Is this not saying that a garden will grow more flowers if one does not criticise it by trying to pull up the weeds? Is it not sheer nonsense to talk of erroneous ideas displacing themselves without anybody taking the trouble to refute anything, when there was never a time in the history of man when ideas, true and false, did not have to meet the objections of the fault-finder? No; Durant assures us that Bergson speaks with “the voice of wisdom herself,” and that when we “‘prove’ or ‘disprove’ a philosophy we are merely offering another one.” Merely, you understand. Then all philosophies are indifferent mixtures, one as good as another. Here is pragmatism mixed with _laissez-faire_. And like pragmatism (which at one and the same time holds that whatever you think is true is indeed true for the moment and as far as you are concerned, and that nevertheless the test of truth is the fruit it bears), it does not understand itself. FOOTNOTES: [146] _Op. cit._, p. 83. [147] _Ibid._, p. 429. [148] _Op. cit._, p. 446. [149] _Op. cit._, page 71. [150] _Ibid._, p. 454. [151] _Ibid._, p. 155. [152] _Ibid._, p. 456. [153] _Op. cit._, p. 437. [154] _Ibid._, p. 473. [155] “This Believing World,” p. 298. [156] _Ibid._, p. 296. [157] _Ibid._, p. 297. [158] _Op. cit._, p. 300. [159] _Op. cit._, p. 29. [160] _Ibid._, pp. 29-30. [161] _Ibid._, p. 30. [162] _Op. cit._, p. 259. [163] _Op. cit._, pp. 259-260. [164] _Ibid._, p. 261. [165] _Op. cit._, p. 263. [166] _Ibid._, p. 264. [167] _Ibid._, p. 265. [168] _Op. cit._, p. 266. [169] _Op. cit._, p. 267. [170] _Ibid._, p. 267. [171] St. John, XIV. [172] “This Believing World,” p. 269. [173] _Ibid._, p. 271. [174] _Ibid._, p. 272. [175] _Ibid._, p. 273. [176] _Ibid._, p. 276. [177] “This Believing World,” p. 277. [178] _Loc. cit._ [179] _Ibid._ [180] _Op. cit._, p. 278. [181] _Ibid._, p. 279. [182] _Ibid._, p. 280. [183] _Op. cit._, p. 280. [184] _Ibid._, p. 281. [185] _Ibid._, p. 282. [186] _Ibid._, p. 284. [187] “The Psychology of Religious Mysticism,” p. 189. [188] “This Believing World,” p. 284. [189] “This Believing World,” p. 285. [190] _Op. cit._, p. 218. [191] _Ibid._, p. 285. [192] _Op. cit._, p. 287. [193] _Ibid._, p. 288. [194] _Ibid._, p. 289. [195] _Ibid._, p. 290. [196] _Op. cit._, p. 292. [197] _Ibid._, p. 292. [198] _Loc. cit._ [199] _Loc. cit._ [200] _Op. cit._, pp. 292-293. [201] _Loc. cit._ [202] _Op. cit._, p. 296. [203] _Op. cit._, p. 64. [204] _Ibid._, p. 70. [205] _Ibid._, p. 279. [206] _Ibid._, p. 274. [207] _Ibid._, p. 277. [208] _Ibid._, p. 298. [209] _Ibid._, pp. 298-299. [210] _Op. cit._, p. 299. [211] _Op. cit._, p. 300. [212] _Ibid._, p. 300.