Original sentence: The last strikes us as somewhat odd, but the theory of evolution was still a long time away.While in The Netherlands he met Jan Frederik Gronovius and showed him a draft of his work on taxonomy, the Systema Naturae which in its published 1758 10th edition classified 4,400 species of animals and 7,700 species of plants
Edited sentence: The last strikes us as somewhat odd, but the theory of evolution was still a long time away, and indeed, the strongly religious Lutheran Linnaeus would likely have been horrified by it.While in The Netherlands he met Jan Frederik Gronovius and showed him a draft of his work on taxonomy, the Systema Naturae