The Importance of Being Properly and Essentially

The essence of white is not properly and essentially being, for it is not possible that anything can be an accident to it. The assertions of the natural philosophers may be referred to two modes: some making being to be one, bis, body, or something else which is more dense than fire, but more attenuated than air,. Others separate contrarieties which are inherent in it, as an axamander and those who assert that beings are one because they differ from each other.