"Every genus is natural, created as such in the beginning, hence not to be rashly split up or stuck together by whim or according to anyone's theory."
— Carl Linnaeus

January 1, 1970

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Systema naturae (1735) (quoted in Ramsbottom 1938:197) — Original in Latin: Genus omne est naturale, in primordio tale creatum, hinc pro libitu & secundem cujuscimque theoriam non proterve discindendum aut conglutinandum.