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.
— Carl Linnaeus Early Modern

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From 'Systema Naturae' (1735), outlining his fundamental classification of the natural world, with philosophical distinctions between life forms.

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1735

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Philosophical

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