The Principle of Eternity

A thing of this kind possesses a certain order he however who asserts this ought also to assign the cause of what he says. He should either employ induction or demonstration for the things which empedocles supposes are not causes nor is this the essence of friendship or strife. There neither was therefore nor will be a time when motion was not or will not be has been thus far shown chapter two. The principle of motion is sometimes in generated in us from ourselves though nothing external moves us but we say that an animal moves itself. If at any time the whole is at rest motion can be produced from itself in the immovable and not externally if therefore this can be affected in an animal what should