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Aristotle 's failure in Biology is not less conspicuous than his failure in Mechanics; yet the ideas of Final Cause, Likeness, and Vitality , which are said to be the ideas appropriate to this science, were assuredly possessed by him with a distinctness unsurpassed in modern times.
George Henry Lewes (1864) Aristotle: a Chapter from the History of Science, Ch.3 Ancient Science | ||