Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Quote

Reason is not a faculty; still less is it a torch or entity of any kind; but it is a special condition of the individual's intellectual faculties; a condition that is altered by experience, gradually improves and controls the judgments, according as the individual exercises his intellect.


Translated by Hugh Elliot, Zoological Philosophy: An Exposition with Regard to the Natural History of Animals, Chapter VIII (p. 401)


Reason is not a faculty; still less is it a torch or entity of any kind; but it is a special condition of the individual's intellectual faculties; a...

Reason is not a faculty; still less is it a torch or entity of any kind; but it is a special condition of the individual's intellectual faculties; a...

Reason is not a faculty; still less is it a torch or entity of any kind; but it is a special condition of the individual's intellectual faculties; a...

Reason is not a faculty; still less is it a torch or entity of any kind; but it is a special condition of the individual's intellectual faculties; a...