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 
Linnzeus, 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. 
