Good evening and welcome to boring books for bedtime. I hope tonight's installment provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep for once.

So lie back, adjust your volume.

Take a nice deep breath. And off we go. Tonight we're relaxing with a work of philosophy, time and free

will, an essay on the immediate data of consciousness, by Henri Bergson, member of the Institute, Professor at the College of France, authorized translation by F.L. Poggson

MA. Published in London by George Allen and Company limited. And in New York by the

Macmillan Company, 1913. Let's begin. 2013.

Let's begin.

Translator's Preface

A R. Louis Bergsin was born in Paris October 18th, 1859.

He entered the École Normal in 1878 and was admitted Agriche the philosophy in 1881 and

Dr. de Lettre in 1889.

After holding professorships in various provincial and Parisian Lisee,

he became Metro de Conferance at the Ecol Nomale Superior in 1897 and since

1900 has been professor at the College of France.

In 1901 he became a member of the Institute on his election to the Academy de Sions, Moral, and Politique.

A full list of Professor Bergson's works is given in the appended bibliography.

In making the following translation of his essay,

sulled on immediate de la conscience, I have had the great advantage of his cooperation at every stage, and the aid which he has given has been most generous and untiring.

The book itself was worked out and written during the years 1883 to 1887 and it was originally published in 1889. The footnotes in the French

edition contain a certain number of references to French translations of English

works.

In the present translation, I am responsible for citing these references from the original English.

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