Page:History of botany (Sachs; Garnsey).djvu/127

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.
Chap. II.]
Organs from Cesalpino to Linnaeus.
107

No further proof is wanting that this theory of Linnaeus is no precursor of our theory of descent, but is most distinctly opposed to it; it is utterly and entirely the fruit of scholasticism, while the essential feature in Darwin's theory of descent is that scholasticism finds no place in it.