its own motion, on both suppositions we have the result that in all
cases of things being in motion that which primarily imparts motion is
unmoved.
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Since there must always be bondage painmaster bd bs sm motion without intermission, there must
necessarily be something, one thing or it may be a plurality, that
first imparts motion, and bondage painmaster bd bs sm this first movent must be unmoved. Now the
bondage painmaster bd bs sm question whether each of the bondage painmaster bd bs sm things that are unmoved but impart bondage painmaster bd bs sm motion
is eternal is irrelevant to our present argument: but the following
considerations will make it bondage painmaster bd bs sm clear that there must necessarily be
some such thing, which, while it
has the capacity of moving
something else, is itself unmoved and exempt from all change, which
can affect it neither in an unqualified nor in an accidental sense.
Let us suppose, if any one likes, that in the case bondage painmaster bd bs sm of certain things
it is possible for them at different times to be and not to be,
without any process of becoming and perishing (in fact it would seem
to be necessary, if a thing that has not parts at one time is and at
another time is not, that bondage painmaster bd bs sm any such thing should without undergoing any
process of change at one time be bondage painmaster bd bs sm and at another time not be). And
let us further suppose it possible that some principles that are
bondage painmaster bd bs sm unmoved but capable of bondage painmaster bd bs sm imparting motion at bondage painmaster bd bs sm one time are and at another
time are not. Even so, this cannot be true of all such principles,
since there bondage painmaster bd bs sm must clearly be something that causes things that move
themselves at one bondage painmaster bd bs sm time to be and at another not to be. bondage painmaster bd bs sm for, since
nothing that has not parts can be in motion, that which moves itself
must as a whole have magnitude, though nothing that we have said makes
this necessarily true of every movent. So bondage painmaster bd bs sm the fact that some things
become and others perish, and that this is so continuously, cannot
be caused by any one of those things that, though they are unmoved, bondage painmaster bd bs sm do
not always exist: nor again can it be
caused by bondage painmaster bd bs sm any of those which
move certain particular things, while others move other things. The
bondage painmaster bd bs sm eternity and continuity of the process cannot be caused either bondage painmaster bd bs sm by
any one of them singly or by the sum of them, because bondage painmaster bd bs sm this causal
relation must be bondage painmaster bd bs sm eternal and necessary, bondage painmaster bd bs sm whereas the sum of these
movents is infinite and they do not all exist together. It is clear,
then, that though there may be countless instances of the perishing of
some principles that are unmoved but impart motion, and though many