Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only in…

Thomas Browne
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Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.
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