Note e — BOOK XI.
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Galen having substantially refuted the Epicurean Principles of Asclepiades, by shewing his Ignorance in Anatomy and Philosophy, and by Demonstrating all the Causes to be evidently in the Works of Nature, viz. Final, Efficient, Instrumental, Material and Formal Causes, concludes thus against his fortuitous Atoms, ex quibus intelligi potest: Conditorem nostrum in formandis particulis unum hunc sequi scopum, nempe ut quod melius est eligat. Galen. de Us. Part. L. 6. c. 13.