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+<u>Aristotle:</u> Nature adapts the organ to the function, and not the function to the organ
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+<u>Lucretius:</u> Nothing in the body is made in order that we may use it. What happens to exist is the cause of its use.
-!{{Quotation|Nothing in the body is made in order that we may use it. What happens to exist is the cause of its use.|Lucretius|De Rerum Natura ([[On the Nature of Things]])<ref>De Rerum Natura ([[On the Nature of Things]]), IV, 833; cf. 822-56. William Leonard's translation is very different: "Since naught is born in body so that we / May use the same, but birth engenders use".</ref>}}
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