The subject which I have to discuss here is so complex, it raises so manyquestions of all kinds, difficult, obscure, some psychological, othersphysiological and metaphysical; in order to be treated in a completemanner it requires such a long development—and we have so littlespace, that I shall ask your permission to dispense with all preamble, toset aside unessentials, and to go at once to the heart of the question...Henri-Louis Bergson was a French-Jewish philosopher who was influential in the tradition of continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until the Second World War.