Carl Linnaeus — "The African is lazy, crafty, negligent, and governed by caprice."
The African is lazy, crafty, negligent, and governed by caprice.
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About Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)
Swedish botanist and the father of modern taxonomy whose Systema Naturae (1735) introduced binomial nomenclature for naming all species. Closely associated with Joseph Banks (British naturalist who carried Linnaean classification on Cook's voyages). For an intellectual contrast, see Comte de Buffon, French naturalist and Histoire Naturelle author (1749-1788) — Buffon explicitly attacked Linnaean fixed-categories taxonomy as artificial and rejected the binomial system; his gradualist, environment-shaped natural history was the explicit alternative. Anticipates the fixed-species-vs-evolution debate Darwin would later resolve.