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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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| (Source: https://www.wikidoc.org/index.php/Teleology) | | (Source: https://www.wikidoc.org/index.php/Teleology) |
