They are usually contrasted, in the same way as Linnaeus is contrasted with Buffon, Adanson, or AntoineLaurent de Jussieu or as a rigid and simple conception of nature is contrasted with the detailed and immediate perception of its relations, or as the idea of a motionless nature is contrasted with that of a teeming continuity of beings all communicating with one another, mingling with one another, and perhaps being transformed into one another. .