Natural bodies are divided into three kingdoms of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling.
Biological taxonomy
From 'Systema Naturae' (1735), outlining his fundamental classification of the natural world, with philosophical distinctions between life forms.
1735
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