⁹ Robert Boyle, A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things. Similarly, we can find Newton saying that: ‘It seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter into solid, massy, hard, impenetrable movable particles, of such sizes and figures and with such other properties and in such proportion in space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them’ (Optics IV 260).