There are as many species as the infinite being created diverse forms in the beginning, which, following the laws of generation, produced many others, but always similar to them: therefore there are as many species as we have different structures before us today.
Biological taxonomy
From 'Philosophia Botanica' (1751), aphorism 157. A statement on the fixity of species and divine creation.
1751
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