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Quotation from On the Motion and Gait of Animals by Aristotle
“Nature creates nothing without a purpose, but always the best possible in each kind of living creature by reference to its essential constitution”
On the Motion and Gait of Animals, Gait of Animals, ch. 2, trans. A. S. L. Farquharson (1912)
The first of the principles Aristotle lays down before explaining the number and bending of limbs.
Citation: "Nature creates nothing without a purpose, but always the best possible in each kind of living creature by reference to its essential constitution" — Aristotle, On the Motion and Gait of Animals, Gait of Animals, ch. 2, trans. A. S. L. Farquharson (1912). (id aristotle-movement-and-progression-of-animals-q6)
