TEXT FLY WITHIN THE BOOK ONLY 10 &lt; OU_16098l|[n CQ CO OSMANIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Call No. ff&lt;f 'f / fy ^ T" Accession No Author This book should he rt'turnoi &gt;n or before ttic ;lme.|cisf prtrked bcrlow THE TWO SOURCES OF MORALITY AND RELIGION MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED LONDON BOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK BOSTON CHICAGO DALLAS ATLANTA SAN FRANCISCO THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LIMITED TORONTO THE TWO SOURCES OF MORALITY AND RELIGION BY HENRI BERGSON TRANSLATED BY R. ASHLEY AUDRA AND CLOUDESLEY BRERETQN Y- " WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF W. HORSFALL CARTER MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON COPYRIGHT PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, EDINBURGH TRANSLATORS' PREFACE IN undertaking to place before the English public M. Henri Bergson 's great work, which since its publication in March 1932 has gone through seventeen editions, the translators were confronted at the outset with great difficulties. An example, of the utmost importance, was the word "morale", which has a wider meaning in French than in English, conveying both morality and ethics. There are obvious disadvantages in attempting to use now the one now the other of these two terms, though this has in some cases been done. But we have in most cases kept to the word "morality", and therefore consider it advisable to inform our readers of the wide sense in which we use it. As Monsieur Bergson himself says more than once, "You may attribute what meaning you