Institutio Oratoria

The fifth place they assign to the conclusion which either merely makes the necessary inference from the preceding parts ( i.e.

Therefore the universe is governed by reason

) or after briefly bringing major and minor premise together adds what is deduced from them with the following result:

But if on the one hand things that are controlled by reason are better governed than things which are not and on the other nothing is better administered than the universe, then it follows that the universe is governed by reason.

As regards this part of the epicheireme I agree.