Note 40 — Chapter VII · RELIGION AND ART

This aspect has been developed in modern times by Schopenhauer, Ed. von Hartmann, and others. Bergson seems to me to be greatly indebted to Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer's Will and Bergson's élan vital are practically the same (cf. Schopenhauer's Über den Willen in der Natur, and Bergson's Creative Evolution). Edward Carpenter, in his Art of Creation, has worked out a similar point of view independently of Bergson.