Creative Evolution"Creative Evolution" is the most famous and influential work of distinguished French philosopher Henri Bergson. This work features the fullest expression of the philosopher's ideas about the problem of existence, propounding a theory of evolution utterly distinct from those of earlier thinkers and scientists. |
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