Meland, Bernard E.  “The Relevance of Bergson's Philosophy.”  Iliff Review 6, vol. 1   (Winter 1949):  9-20.

Abstract

William James and Bergson both hold that the key to reality is conscious experience and that the intellect in primarily a practical tool, which has the potentiality of distorting reality.  Though Bergson is not an anti-intellectualist, he hold that intellectual concepts tend to distort reality and that there is another way of knowing reality that that of intellectual analysis.  This is intuition, which contacts the flow of experience before it is broken up by the intellect. [Bruce Epperly, 14 Nov. 1978]