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 1   I,  1 |         to our understanding of Nature, for the soul is in some
 2   I,  1 | understand, first its essential nature, and secondly its properties;
 3   I,  1 |         objects whose essential nature (as we are endeavouring
 4   I,  1 |     which of these parts are in nature distinct from one another.)
 5   I,  1 |   acquainted with the essential nature of those substances (as
 6   I,  1 |    angles to know the essential nature of the straight and the
 7   I,  1 |      knowledge of the essential nature of a substance is largely
 8   I,  1 |      saying about the essential nature of that subject; in all
 9   I,  1 |      fall within the science of Nature, at least so far as in its
10   I,  2 |      belong to soul in its very nature. Two characteristic marks
11   I,  2 |        elements of the whole of Nature (Leucippus gives a similar
12   I,  2 |       is what is closest to the nature of soul, and that while
13   I,  2 |      principle or principles of Nature, according as they admit
14   I,  2 |   self-moving number.~As to the nature and number of the first
15   I,  2 |         that what is in its own nature originative of movement
16   I,  2 |    perceptiveness is due to the nature of blood.~Each of the elements
17   I,  3 |    departure from its essential nature, at least if its self-movement
18   I,  3 |         must be contrary to its nature. It must also be painful
19   I,  3 |  omitted; for some community of nature is presupposed by the fact
20   I,  3 |        always implies a special nature in the two interagents.
21   I,  4 |        alterations (the special nature of the parts and the special
22   I,  5 |         to hold that mind is by nature most primordial and dominant,
23   I,  5 |  another desires. If, then, its nature admits of its being divided,
24  II,  1 |    outline determination of the nature of soul.~
25  II,  3 |         expressing the peculiar nature of any figure. So here in
26  II,  3 |         to express the peculiar nature of anything that is, or
27  II,  4 |       order that, as far as its nature allows, it may partake in
28  II,  4 |        they do whatsoever their nature renders possible. The phrase "
29  II,  4 |    final cause of its body. For Nature, like mind, always does
30  II,  4 |         it follows the order of nature; all natural bodies are
31  II,  4 |         formed in the course of nature there is a limit or ratio
32  II,  4 |       an outline account of the nature of food; further details
33  II,  5 |      the direction of fixity or nature.~In the case of what is
34  II,  6 |       of which are in their own nature perceptible by sense, the
35  II,  6 |       it is to them that in the nature of things the structure
36  II,  7 |         upon what is in its own nature visible; "in its own nature"
37  II,  7 |     nature visible; "in its own nature" here means not that visibility
38  II,  7 |      power constitutes its very nature. That is why it is not visible
39  II,  8 |         Once air is inbreathed, Nature uses it for two different
40  II,  8 |    similarly in the former case Nature employs the breath both
41  II,  9 |         hard are ill-endowed by nature, men whose flesh is soft,
42  II,  10|     also (b) what is adapted by nature to have it but has not it
43  II,  10|         loss of its distinctive nature. This is confirmed by the
44 III,  2 |         The earlier students of nature were mistaken in their view
45 III,  4 |         of what is alien to its nature is a hindrance and a block:
46 III,  4 |     sensitive part, can have no nature of its own, other than that
47 III,  4 |        a precedent community of nature between the factors. Again
48 III,  5 |    every class of things, as in nature as a whole, we find two
49 III,  5 |    since it is in its essential nature activity (for always the
50 III,  9 | throughout their lives.~If then Nature never makes anything without
51 III,  9 |         rise to completeness of nature and decay to an end), it
52 III,  11|       moral weakness (though by nature the higher faculty is always
53 III,  12|   endowed with sensation, since Nature does nothing in vain. For
54 III,  12|        all things that exist by Nature are means to an end, or
55 III,  12|        end, which is the aim of Nature; for how could it obtain