Note 422 — Chapter IX · PRAGMATISM AND IDEALISM IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF BERGSON386

“Now, if the same kind of action is going on everywhere, whether it is that which is striving to remake itself, I simply express this probable similitude when I speak of a centre from which worlds shoot out as rockets in a fireworks display—provided, however, that I do not present [there is a great idea here, a true piece of ‘Kantianism’] this centre as a thing, but as a continuity of shooting out. God thus defined has nothing of the already made. He is unceasing life, action, freedom. Creation so conceived is not a mystery; we experience it in ourselves when we act freely” (Creative Evolution, p. 262).