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most elevated and inspiring, and we know that in 
character he was pure and sweet, self-sacrificing, 
self-denying, and free from sclf-assertion. 
The quotations from his Phzlosophie szoolcgique, 
published in 1809, given below, will show what were 
the results of his meditations on the relations be- 
tween science and religion. Had his way of looking 
at this subject prevailed, how much misunderstand- 
ing and ill-feeling between theologians and savants 
would have been avoided! UHad his spirit and 
breadth of view animated both parties, there would 
not have been the constant and needless opposition 
on the part of the Church to the grand results of 
scientific discovery and philosophy, or too hasty 
dogmatism and scepticism on the part of some 
scientists. 
In Lamarck, at the opening of the past century, 
we behold the spectacle of a man devoting over fifty 
years of his life to scientific research in biology, and 
insisting on the doctrine of spontaneous generation ; 
of the immense length of geological time, so opposed 
to the views held by the Church; the evolution of 
plants and animals from a single germ, and even the 
origin of man from the apes, yet as earnestly claim- 
ing that nature has its Author who in the beginning 
established the order of things, giving the initial 
impulse to the laws of the universe. 
As Duval says, after quoting the passage given 
below: ‘‘ Deux faits son a noter dans ce passage: 
d’une part, les termes dignes et conciliants dans 
lesquels Lamarck établit la part de la science et de 
la religion; cela vaut, mieux, méme en tenant compte 
