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 1 VII, 1  |          there must be some first movent. For let us suppose that
 2 VII, 1  |       Then since ex hypothesi the movent while causing motion is
 3 VII, 1  |       moved and the motion of the movent must proceed simultaneously (
 4 VII, 1  |           simultaneously (for the movent is causing motion and the
 5 VII, 1  |         and there must be a first movent and a first moved: for the
 6 VII, 2  |       must also be three kinds of movent, that which causes locomotion,
 7 VII, 2  |    evident that the moved and the movent are together: for they contain
 8 VII, 2  |     within themselves their first movent, so that there is nothing
 9 VII, 2  |       pushing off occurs when the movent does not follow up the thing
10 VII, 2  |          moved: throwing when the movent causes a motion away from
11 VII, 2  |    intermediate between moved and movent. But the former fact is
12 VII, 2  |    intermediate between moved and movent.~Nor again is there anything
13 VII, 2  |         smelling: for the primary movent in respect to the moved
14 VII, 2  |  extremities of the moved and the movent that are respectively first
15 VII, 5  |         since wherever there is a movent, its motion always acts
16 VIII, 1 |        time when there is a first movent and a first moved, and another
17 VIII, 1 |         when a thing ceases to be movent, does it therefore at the
18 VIII, 4 |          in the thing between the movent and the moved. It would
19 VIII, 4 |      continuous: in each case the movent must be separate from the
20 VIII, 5 |           of two ways. Either the movent is not itself responsible
21 VIII, 5 |    something else which moves the movent, or the movent is itself
22 VIII, 5 |          moves the movent, or the movent is itself responsible for
23 VIII, 5 |           latter case, either the movent immediately precedes the
24 VIII, 5 |        however, we have reached a movent that is not so in virtue
25 VIII, 5 |         the last and by the first movent in the series, but more
26 VIII, 5 |        the first, since the first movent moves the last, whereas
27 VIII, 5 |       moved by something, and the movent must either itself be moved
28 VIII, 5 |          there must be some first movent that is not itself moved
29 VIII, 5 |         the case of the immediate movent being of this kind there
30 VIII, 5 |           need of an intermediate movent that is also moved (for
31 VIII, 5 |          something, and the first movent is moved but not by anything
32 VIII, 5 |     another way as follows. Every movent moves something and moves
33 VIII, 5 |           If, then, anything is a movent while being itself moved,
34 VIII, 5 |           Therefore, if this last movent is in motion and there is
35 VIII, 5 |           some time or other to a movent of this kind.~And if we
36 VIII, 5 |       three things-the moved, the movent, and the instrument of motion.
37 VIII, 5 |        not move anything-then the movent, in so far as it is in motion,
38 VIII, 5 |          is moved is moved by the movent that is further back in
39 VIII, 5 |           it: in fact the earlier movent is that which more strictly
40 VIII, 5 |     actuality of the movable. The movent on the other hand is already
41 VIII, 5 |        every other case where the movent must be described by the
42 VIII, 5 |        one part of it that is the movent and another part that is
43 VIII, 5 |            there will be no first movent. If a thing is moved by
44 VIII, 5 |        and will be more truly the movent: for we found that there
45 VIII, 5 |       that there are two kinds of movent, that which is itself moved
46 VIII, 5 |           is no necessity for the movent part to be moved by anything
47 VIII, 5 |           part that is an unmoved movent. In the third place, there
48 VIII, 5 |           is no necessity for the movent to be moved in return: on
49 VIII, 5 |         that there should be some movent that is either unmoved or
50 VIII, 6 |    imparts motion, and this first movent must be unmoved. Now the
51 VIII, 6 |         necessarily true of every movent. So the fact that some things
52 VIII, 6 |          being eternal, the first movent, if there is but one, will
53 VIII, 6 |     sufficient to assume only one movent, the first of unmoved things,
54 VIII, 6 |         it evident that the first movent must be something that is
55 VIII, 6 |         and it is one only if the movent and the moved that constitute
56 VIII, 6 |           something, and that the movent is either unmoved or in
57 VIII, 6 |      self-moving things the first movent and cause of their self-motion
58 VIII, 6 |           there should be a first movent that is unmoved even accidentally,
59 VIII, 6 |       something of this nature, a movent that is itself unmoved and
60 VIII, 6 |       moved by an eternal unmoved movent and are therefore always
61 VIII, 6 |       other things are moved by a movent that is in motion and changing,
62 VIII, 6 |           change. But the unmoved movent, as has been said, since
63 VIII, 7 |          is imparted by the first movent, and so it is necessarily
64 VIII, 7 |           so it is plain that the movent does not maintain a uniform
65 VIII, 7 |      motion imparted by the first movent.~Secondly, locomotion must
66 VIII, 9 |       says that "Mind", his first movent, "separates". Similarly
67 VIII, 9 |         have pronounced the first movent to be unmoved.~
68 VIII, 10|          to assert that the first movent must be without parts and
69 VIII, 10|         We have three things, the movent, the moved, and thirdly
70 VIII, 10|           be in motion when their movent is no longer in contact
71 VIII, 10|          them? If we say that the movent in such cases moves something
72 VIII, 10|          in being moved is also a movent, then it would be no more
73 VIII, 10|          motion when the original movent is not in contact with it
74 VIII, 10|          motion when the original movent ceases to move them, even
75 VIII, 10|          moved capable of being a movent. Therefore, while we must
76 VIII, 10|          saying that the original movent gives the power of being
77 VIII, 10|        gives the power of being a movent either to air or to water
78 VIII, 10|     motion at the moment when its movent ceases to move it, but it
79 VIII, 10|            but it still remains a movent, and so it causes something
80 VIII, 10|           the next member to be a movent but only causes it to be
81 VIII, 10|      these last two-of the one as movent and of the other as moved-must
82 VIII, 10|      contact, there being not one movent but a number of movents
83 VIII, 10| throughout its motion by the same movent, the question is, what moves
84 VIII, 10|       magnitude moved by a single movent (for otherwise there will
85 VIII, 10|           unmoved. Thus we have a movent that has no need to change
86 VIII, 10|         than any other, since the movent is never subject to any
87 VIII, 10|    respect of its relation to the movent. Moreover the movent must
88 VIII, 10|          the movent. Moreover the movent must occupy either the centre
89 VIII, 10|        But the things nearest the movent are those whose motion is
90 VIII, 10|           quickest: therefore the movent occupies the circumference.~
91 VIII, 10|           successiveness). Such a movent must either itself continue
92 VIII, 10|         and be passed on from one movent to another (the process
93 VIII, 10|      water, being divisible, is a movent only in virtue of the fact
94 VIII, 10|          is caused by the unmoved movent: and this motion is continuous
95 VIII, 10|         is continuous because the movent remains always invariable,
96 VIII, 10|      clear that the first unmoved movent cannot have any magnitude.
97 VIII, 10|      infinite time. But the first movent causes a motion that is
98 VIII, 10|         therefore, that the first movent is indivisible and is without