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LAMARCK’S THOUGHTS ON MORALS, AND ON THE 
RELATION BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION 
ONE who has read the writings of the great French 
naturalist, who may be regarded as the founder of 
evolution, will readily realize that Lamarck’s mind 
was essentially philosophic, comprehensive, and syn- 
thetic. He looked upon every problem in a large 
way. His breadth of view, his moral and intellec- 
tual strength, his equably developed nature, gener- 
ous in its sympathies and aspiring in its tendencies, 
naturally led him to take a conservative position as 
to the relations between science and religion. He 
should, as may be inferred from his frequent refer- 
ences to the Author of nature, be regarded as a 
deist. 
When avery young man, he was for a time a friend 
of the erratic and gifted Rousseau, and was after- 
wards not unknown to Condorcet, the secretary of 
the French Academy of Sciences, so liberal in his 
views and so bitter an enemy of the Church; and 
though constantly in contact with the radical views 
and burning questions of that day, Lamarck through- 
out his life preserved his philosophic calm, and main- 
tained his lofty tone and firm temper. We find no 
trace in his writings of sentiments other than the 
