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In the on-line book you cite, I refer to section 1.6: How to Find Lagrangians:
"The key idea is to construct a Lagrangian L such that Lagrange's
equations are Newton's equations F = ma."
This would seem to be one of my points: "we have to write it this way
to get the answer we want."