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Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution

CHAPTER I
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But several of his brothers entered the army, and the domestic atmosphere was apparently a military one.
Philippe de Lamarck, with his large family, had endowed his first-born son so that he could maintain the family name and title, and had found situations for several of the others in the army.

Jean Lamarck did not manifest any taste for the clerical profession.

He lived in a martial atmosphere.

For centuries his ancestors had borne arms.

His eldest brother had been killed in the breach at the siege of Berg-op-Zoom; two others were still in the service, and in the troublous times at the beginning of the war in 1756, a young man of high spirit and courage would naturally not like to relinquish the prospect of renown and promotion.


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