46 THE HISTORY OF CREATION. 



services to Biology, was clearly the reason why his views of 

 creation also remained, throughout the whole of the last 

 century, undisputed and generally recognized. If through- 

 out systematic Zoology and Botany the distinctions, 

 classification, and designations of species, introduced by 

 Linnaeus, and the dogmatic ideas connected therewith had 

 not been maintained — ^more or less unaltered — we should be 

 at a loss to understand how his idea of an independent 

 creation of single species could have stood, by itself, down 

 to the present day. It is only owing to his great 

 authority, and through his attaching himself to the prevail- 

 ing Biblical belief, that his hypothesis of creation has 

 retained its position so long. 



