"Bergson said that the universe is "a machine to make gods". Teilhard would not take up the expression as his own: in his eyes, the universe is merely a machine to make persons."
— Henri de Lubac

January 1, 1970

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The concluding words of Henri Bergson's The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932) are "the essential function of the universe, which is a machine for making gods (une machine à faire des dieux)".