PART TWO of this work comprises a revision of the author's
doctoral dissertation, Bergson's Idea of Creation, presented to the Faculty of Princeton University in May 1930.

To Professor Warner Fite and to Professor Morris W. Croll, both
of Princeton University, I am indebted for the introduction to the idea
of creation and of creative intuition which their lectures afforded me.
I wish it were in my power to present this important concept with the
direct, lucid simplicity of which these men are masters. To Professor
George T. Whitney of Princeton I owe a debt of gratitude for his
patient and acute criticism of my treatment of Bergson's philosophy,
also to Professor Norman Kemp-Smith of Edinburgh University for
his generous comment upon certain special topics. I cannot complete this
list without expressing my gratitude to four of my teachers discussion
with whom has moulded my thoughts upon so many matters, Professor
R. B. C. Johnson, Professor Edward G. Spaulding, and Professor
Theodore M. Greene of Princeton University and Professor Charles W.
Hendel of McGill University.

For the errors, ambiguities, and misinterpretations which this volume
may contain I am alone responsible.

N.P.S.

South Orange, New Jersey.

September, 1934.

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