The Speculation of Particularities

There is then something which is in energy only, and there is something which is both in energy and capacity. One thing also is this particular thing, another so much in quantity and another of a certain quality, and in like manner in the other categories of being. But of relatives, one is predicated according to excess and defect, another according to the effective and passive, and in short the motive and that which may be moved. To which we may add that it is impossible for motion to subsist without place and void and time. It is evident therefore, that because these things are common and universal to all things, we should in the first place make each of these the object of consideration