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pluie zoologique, the spirit of the remainder may be 
imagined from the foregoing extracts. 
The author refers to the numerous evils resulting 
from ignorance, false knowledge, lack of judgment, 
abuse of power, demonstrating the necessity of our 
confining ourselves within the circle of the objects 
presented by nature, and never to go beyond them 
if we do not wish to fall into error, because the pro- 
found study of nature and of the organization of 
man alone, and the exact observation of facts alone, 
will reveal to us ‘‘ the truths most important for us 
to know,”’ in order to avoid the vexations, the per- 
fidies, the injustices, and the oppressions of all sorts, 
and “‘incalculable disorders’’ which arise in the 
social body. In this way only shall we discover and 
acquire the means of obtaining the enjoyment of the 
advantages which we have a right to expect from 
our state of civilization. The author endeavors to 
state what science can and should render to society. 
He dwells on the sources from which man has drawn 
the knowledge which he possesses, and from which 
he can obtain many others—sources the totality of 
which constitutes for him the field of realities. 
Lamarck also in this work has built up a system 
for moral philosophy. 
Self-love, he says, perfectly regulated, gives rise: 
1. To moral force which characterizes the labori- 
ous man, so that the length and difficulties of a use- 
ful work do not repel him. 
2. To the courage of him who, knowing the dan- 
ger, exposes himself when he sees that this would 
be useful. 
