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be interpreted in the light of the ' divine event'to which it moves. The divine Activity, of which emergént evolution is the expression, will then appear not as an "alien influx into nature" from without, but as omnipresent and manifested in every one of the multitudinous entities within the pyramid, or to use an Indian metaphor, in the everflowing Gangā of Evolution-which springs from the foot-just a single limb-of the Great Vishņu.
IV A third scientist philosopher who attracts our attention at the present day is Bergson. He represents the transition from Science to Philosophy. Unlike some of his British comrades who wish to carry Science into Philosophy, this French scientist has reversed the process, and has introduced fundamental changes both in the assumptions and in the details of Science. In modification of the Darwinian theory of Evolution he points out that adaptation to environments does not explain all the facts of evolution ; moreover, the Darwinian theory though partially successful in explaining the direction of evolution, fails altogether to explain the fact of evolution itself. He thus arrives at a metaphysical conception of life, whose forms science may investigate, but whose existence and nature are within the province of Philosophy. Bergson posits a kind of vital surge at the heart of the Universe, not controlled or guided by any external mind or will, but free and undetermined. It is a force which is comparable in some respects to the Prakrti of the Sāmkhya which possesses Kriya-Sakti but not Dik-sakti. This ૧૦૩
