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This little treatise, pretty obscure, interests me because: (1) William James, the pragmatist-philosopher with a frighteningly open mind, praised Bergson's thought and limpid style; (2) it influenced the extravagant early poetry of Wallace Stevens; (3) Einstein, in a much-discussed debate, humiliated Bergson, and I've always had affinity for the shamed and the foolish — Polonius was my Hamlet.