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1 18| condition, not restless in motion, not ungraceful in form, 2 18| of God It began to assume motion for the arrangement of His 3 36| EXPOSED IN AN IRONICAL STRAIN, MOTION IN MATTER. HERMOGENES' CONCEITS 4 36| he means its uncreated motion. If, says he, Matter were 5 36| incorporeal, that is, (no) motion; if, on the other hand, 6 36| going to allow you to reckon motion as a moiety of Matter, seeing 7 36| slip is, or a fall, so is motion. When anything moves even 8 36| moves even of itself, its motion is the result of impulse; 9 36| your sense, when you make motion the incorporeal part of 10 36| All things, indeed, have motion either of themselves as 11 36| they had both a body and motion: we should say rather that 12 36| integral portion of Matter to motion, which does not pertain 13 36| Neither, in like manner, could motion. But I shall be at liberty 14 36| be at liberty to speak of motion elsewhere.~ 15 41| SPECULATIONS RESPECTING MOTION IN MATTER, AND THE MATERIAL 16 41| come back to the point of motion, that I may show how slippery 17 41| slippery you are at every step. Motion in Matter was disordered, 18 41| passage another sort of motion is affirmed by you? For 19 41| creation) possessing as it does motion in an equable impulse, tends 20 41| evenness, and exactitude of a motion, inclining to neither side. 21 41| Moreover, although the motion of Matter was not prone 22 41| certain limits, because its motion, while prone to neither 23 41| habitation, when you assert that motion in Matter inclined to neither 24 41| assign locality when you keep motion in Matter poised equally 25 42| compare them. You allege that motion in Matter is without regularity, 26 42| that they set themselves in motion by themselves, and that 27 42| and that they are ever in motion. What less do you ascribe 28 42| freedom and perpetuity of motion. Only in God motion is regular, 29 42| perpetuity of motion. Only in God motion is regular, in Matter irregular. 30 42| having free and eternal motion. At the same time, you assign 31 43| GOOD.~On the subject of motion I would make this further 32 43| boiling caldron, you say that motion in Matter, before it was 33 43| and kept its irregular motion incomprehensible, owing 34 43| tardiness of its irregular motion." Just before you ascribe 35 43| commotion, here tardiness, to motion. Now observe how many slips