The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.
Biological taxonomy
From 'Philosophia Botanica' (1751), aphorism 162. A statement on the origin of biological categories, distinguishing natural kinds from human constructs.
1751
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