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to a civilised state. 1 He refused to accept the extravagant 

 evolutionary theory of Demaillet and the somewhat confused 

 theory of Lamarck (whom he joins with Demaillet), 2 just as he 

 rejected the transcendental theories of Geoffrey St Hilaire, 

 because they seemed to him not based upon facts. 



1 Rcgnc Animal, i., p. 91. 

 - Os semens Fossiles, i., p. 26. 



