摘要：The spiritual belief in reincarnation and the scientific theory of transformism bothprovided inspiration for theorists of social progress in nineteenth-century France.Until now, however, the connections between the two views have not been revealed.This article examines the relationship between reincarnation and transformism in aforgotten text of 1856 by the novelist George Sand. Sand is mainly known today forher canonical works of the 1830s and 1840s, for her views on marriage, and for herallegedly simplistic idealism. There has been no major study on Sand and science. Herwork is worth studying from this perspective, however, not only due to her extensiveengagement with geology, botany and entomology, but because of the different formof scientific literature she offers.
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