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Movement is, according to Aristotle, of six kinds:

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A may go to sleep quicker than B, but cannot do more sleep in a given time.

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Compare Book III. chap. vi. [Greek: osper kai epi ton somaton, k. t. l.]

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Which is of course a [Greek: genesis].

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That is, subordinate Movements are complete before the whole Movement is.

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Pleasure is so instantaneous a sensation, that it cannot be conceived divisible or incomplete; the longest continued Pleasure is only a succession of single sparks, so rapid as to give the appearance of a stream, of light.

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A man is as effectually hindered from taking a walk by the [Greek: allotria haedouae] of reading a novel, as by the [Greek: oikeia lupae] of gout in the feet.

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I have thus rendered [Greek: spoudae (ouk agnoon to hamartanomenon)]; but, though the English term does not represent the depth of the Greek one, it is some approximation to the truth to connect an earnest serious purpose with Happiness.

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