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 1  II, 1  |    such thing they held to be eternal (for it could not pass into
 2 III, 4  |       too, for in the case of eternal things what may be must
 3  IV, 12 |   thing whose contrary is not eternal can be and not be, and it
 4 VIII, 1 |     no being, or they must be eternal. Now if there was a becoming
 5 VIII, 1 |     time, motion must also be eternal. But so far as time is concerned
 6 VIII, 1 |       is clear that motion is eternal and cannot have existed
 7 VIII, 1 |  whereas first principles are eternal and have no ulterior cause.
 8 VIII, 2 |       no process of change is eternal: for the nature of all change
 9 VIII, 2 |       of being continuous and eternal: we shall have something
10 VIII, 6 |  unmoved but impart motion is eternal is irrelevant to our present
11 VIII, 6 |       causal relation must be eternal and necessary, whereas the
12 VIII, 6 |   things. Motion, then, being eternal, the first movent, if there
13 VIII, 6 |     there is but one, will be eternal also: if there are more
14 VIII, 6 |   will be a plurality of such eternal movents. We ought, however,
15 VIII, 6 |   unmoved things, which being eternal will be the principle of
16 VIII, 6 |     something that is one and eternal. We have shown that there
17 VIII, 6 |    that is itself unmoved and eternal, then that which is first
18 VIII, 6 |     first moved by it must be eternal. Indeed this is clear also
19 VIII, 6 |   some things are moved by an eternal unmoved movent and are therefore
20 VIII, 7 | motion that is continuous and eternal. Now it is clear from the
21 VIII, 8 |    rectilinear motion that is eternal.~The same method should
22 VIII, 9 |   motion that admits of being eternal is prior to one that does
23 VIII, 9 |    Now rotatory motion can be eternal: but no other motion, whether
24 VIII, 9 |       first principle of this eternal motion: we have explained
25 VIII, 9 |       only motion that can be eternal: and we have pronounced
26 VIII, 10|       causes a motion that is eternal and does cause it during