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Abstract

leianism as "vicious intellectualism" is clearly unfair. Bradley and Bergson both criticize the categories of science as partial viewpoints and reject the view that the absolute is a logical construction. Both look for a means of apprehending a reality which is an individual unity and includes feeling. So Bergson's "intuition" is fruitfully compared with Bradley's "higher immediacy." Bergson comes out of the comparison best in Mr. Loomba's eyes. This is partly because of his deeper appreciation of life and growth. Bradley's absolute became a static "block universe." But this, Mr. Loomba interestingly urges, is not a necessary consequence of Bradley's metaphysical attitude, so much as conditioned by the philosophic tradition in which he stood. His absolute is really the immediate collective experience of the multiplicity of appearances, which in effect he considers as an ideal and so renders static. So much we may grant on Bergson's side. But on the other counts, unlike Mr. Loomba, we are inclined to give higher marks to Bradley. Bergson believes that his "intuition" can be completely realized-that we can achieve a form of thought which dispenses altogether with symbols. Bradley is to the end more sceptical-we can have partial experience of such Scientia intuitive, but in its fulness it is o068 Kr'frov TOP