Note 30 — INTUITIVE EVIDENCE OF THE EXISTENCE OF SPIRITS. (continued 8)

“Two or three years since Professor Bronn described twenty-six thousand six hundred and seventy-eight species; and, upon an average, one thousand species are discovered every year. M. Alcide D’Orbigny, in 1850, stated the number of mollusks and radiated animals alone at seventeen thousand nine hundred and forty-seven species.”