Original sentence: He was also heavily influenced by Henri Bergson who developed the importance of myth and criticized scientific materialism, by the cult of greatness and hatred of mediocrity found in Nietzsche, and by the ability to recognise the potential corruption of democracy found in liberal conservatives such as Tocqueville, Taine and Renan
Edited sentence: He was also heavily influenced by Henri Bergson who developed the importance of myth and demolished scientific materialism, by the cult of greatness and hatred of mediocrity found in Nietzsche, and by the ability to recognise the corruption of democracy found in liberal conservatives such as Tocqueville, Taine and Renan