…time, Ernst Haeckel and t h Huxley and so on were thinking about the world as the manifestation of energy, say Henri Bergson with the idea of the élan vital. What was the nature of this energy which manifested everything? Essentially, it was something…

…I knew a monk who started out in life as pretty much of an agnostic or an atheist and then he began to read Henri Bergson, the French philosopher who proclaimed the vital force, the élan vital, and so on and the more he read into this kind of…