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Sacred Texts: The Classics

Aristotle: On The Hevens: Book III: Chapter 2

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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 26 Similar meaning (64%) The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 34 Similar meaning (61%) The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 23 Similar meaning (60%) Aristotle: On The Hevens: Book II: Chapter 3 Similar meaning (58%)
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The necessity that each of the simple bodies should have a natural movement may be shown as follows. They manifestly move, and if they have no proper movement they must move by constraint: and the constrained is the same as the unnatural. Now an unnatural movement presupposes a natural movement which it contravenes, and which, however many the unnatural movements, is always one.

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