The First Proponents of the Great Chain of Being Were

question 6

Multiple Choice

The first proponents of the Great Chain of Being were

• A) early Greek philosophers.
• B) Renaissance scholars.
• C) the seventeenth-century Catholic Church.
• D) eighteenth-century naturalists.

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