d be much worse still. In fairness, however, we should compare his time to the previous century, not to the events that followed.
-- Condorcet admitted a conflict between science and the fine arts (including literature). Why did he believe that scientific progress would nevertheless foster the arts?
-- What did Condorcet have to say about the mental capacities of women? What conclusions did he draw from his analysis?
-- Condorcet hailed the American Revolution. What view did he take of the institution of slavery in America?
-- Condorcet believed that progress in knowledge was related to moral progress. How did he believed they were linked? Why was he wrong?
Toby Appel. The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate: French Biology in the Decades Before Darwin.
Through several decades of the early nineteenth century, the Baron was a dominant figure in the French biological sciences. The thrust of his approach to the classification of species was comparative anatomy. That is, he believed that all animal forms were variations upon six overall structural plans, modified in e
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