40 THE HISTORY OF CREATION. 
of creation, together with the dogmas connected with it, has 
become so generally predominant, that the 19th century is 
the first that has dared positively to rise against it. Even 
the great Swedish naturalist, Linnzeus, the founder of modern 
natural history, linked his System of Nature most closely to 
the Mosaic history of creation. 
The extraordinary progress which Charles Linnzeus made 
in the so-called descriptive natural sciences, consists, as is 
well known, in his having established a system of nomencla- 
ture of animals and plants, which he carried out in a manner 
so perfectly logical and consistent, that down to the present 
day it has remained in many respects the standard for all 
succeeding naturalists engaged in the study of the forms of 
animals and plants. Although Linnzus’ system was 
artificial, although in classifying animal and vegetable 
species he only sought and employed single parts as the 
foundation for his divisions, it has, nevertheless, gained the 
greatest success ; firstly, in consequence of its being carried 
out consistently, and secondly, by its nomenclature of natural 
bodies, which has become extremely important, and at 
which we must here briefly glance. 
Before Linnzeus’ time, many vain attempts had been made 
to throw light upon the endless chaos of different animal 
and vegetable forms (then known) by adopting for them 
suitable names and groupings; but Linnzeus, by a happy hit, 
succeeded in accomplishing this important and difficult task, 
when he established the so-called “binary nomenclature.” 
The binary nomenclature, or the twofold designation, as 
Linneeus first established it, is still universally applied by 
all zoologists and botanists, and will, no doubt, maintain 
itself, for a long time to come, with undiminished authority. 
