Note 12 — Chapter IV
Reading edition
Cuvier says, in so many words, that classes, orders, and genera, are abstractions, et rien de pareil n’existe dans la nature; but species is not an abstraction!—See Lettres à Pfaff, p. 179.
Reading edition
Cuvier says, in so many words, that classes, orders, and genera, are abstractions, et rien de pareil n’existe dans la nature; but species is not an abstraction!—See Lettres à Pfaff, p. 179.