Note 136 — III The ‘Clerks’—The Great Betrayal (continued 2)

Evolution Créatrice, page 216. The true formula of Bergsonism should be, ‘I grow, therefore I am.’ Notice also the tendency of modern philosophy to make the practical character of thought its essential characteristic and to make its consciousness of itself a secondary characteristic: ‘Perhaps thought must be defined as the faculty of combining means towards certain ends rather than by the sole property of being clear to itself.’ (D. Roustan, Leçons de Psychologie, page 73.)