Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Quote

Both individual and public reason, when they find themselves exposed to any alteration, usually set up so great an obstacle to it, that it is often harder to secure the recognition of a truth than it is to discover it.


Translated by Hugh Elliot, Zoological Philosophy: An Exposition with Regard to the Natural, History of Animals, Chapter VIII (p. 404)


Both individual and public reason, when they find themselves exposed to any alteration, usually set up so great an obstacle to it, that it is often...

Both individual and public reason, when they find themselves exposed to any alteration, usually set up so great an obstacle to it, that it is often...

Both individual and public reason, when they find themselves exposed to any alteration, usually set up so great an obstacle to it, that it is often...

Both individual and public reason, when they find themselves exposed to any alteration, usually set up so great an obstacle to it, that it is often...