Full Idea
The sun was not made in order to heat the earth and all its inhabitants - whom it sometimes burns - any more than the rain was created in order to grow seeds - which it often spoils.
Gist of Idea
The sun and rain weren't made for us; they sometimes burn us, or spoil our seeds
Source
Julien Offray de La Mettrie (Machine Man [1747])
Book Reference
La Mettrie,Julien Offray de: 'Machine Man and Other Writings', ed/tr. Thomson,Ann [CUP 1996], p.25
A Reaction
This denial of Aristotelian (and divine) teleology is as much part of the movement against religion, as are concerns about natural evil, and about the weakness of arguments for God's existence. These facts were obvious long before La Mettrie.