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1 1| appertain to the same part of an animal, inasmuch as they are opposites, 2 1| sleep or wake] there is no animal which is always awake or 3 1| animals. For if there be an animal not endued with sense-perception, 4 1| attach itself to the same animal, e.g. that some species 5 1| e.g. that some species of animal should be always asleep 6 1| must be present to every animal: it must follow that the 7 1| it is impossible for any animal to continue always sleeping. 8 1| these considerations. For an animal is defined as such by its 9 1| own work better when (the animal) is asleep than when it 10 2| on the soul; and since an animal when asleep is unable to 11 2| not to another, then an animal while asleep may perceive 12 2| the waking state is for an animal its highest end, since the 13 2| belongs of necessity to each animal. I use the term "necessity" 14 2| sense, meaning that if an animal is to exist and have its 15 2| since movement is, in every animal, attended with some sense-perception, 16 3| sense-perception that an animal must first take food and 17 3| narrow strait. Now, in every animal the hot naturally tends 18 3| sleep comes on, and the animal so affected is presently 19 3| it is impossible for an animal to exist if the conditions 20 3| conditions which render it an animal be not fulfilled), i.e.