ence, they are water in a sense, and in a sense not. Their matter was that which might have become water, but it can no longer do so: nor are they, like savours, due to a qualitative change in actual water. Copper and gold are not formed like that, but in every case the evaporation congealed before water was formed. Hence, they all (except gold) are affected by fire, and they possess an admixture of earth; for they still contain the dry exhalation.
This is the general theory of all these bodies, but we must take up each kind of them Christen Press Drakter and discuss it separately.
Book IV
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WE have explained that the qualities that constitute the elements are Orbelin Pineda Drakter four, and that their combinations determine the number of the elements to be four.
Two of the Matthias Ginter Drakter qualities, the hot and the cold, are active; two, the dry and the moist, passive. We can satisfy ourselves of this by looking at instances. In every case heat and cold determine, conjoin, and change things of the same kind and things Nike Air Slant Mid GS Basketball Sko of different kinds, moistening, drying, hardening, and softening them. Things dry and moist, on the other hand, both in isolation and when present together in the same body are the subjects of that determination and of the other affections enumerated. The Joe Allen Drakter account we give of the qualities when Jesse Gonzalez Drakter we define their character shows this too. Hot and cold we describe as active, for ‘congregating’ is essentially a species of ‘being active’: moist and dry are passive, for it is in virtue of its being acted upon in a certain way that a thing is said to be ‘easy to determine’ or ‘difficult to determine’. So it is clear that some of the qualities are active and some passive.
Next we must describe the operations of the active qualities and the forms taken by the passive. Kyle Walker Drakter First of all, true becoming, that is, natural change, is always the work of these powers and so is the corresponding natural destruction; and this becoming and this destruction are found in plants and animals and their parts. True natural becoming is a change introduced by these powers into the matter Air Jordan 5 Limited underlying a given thing when they are in a certain ratio to that matter, which is the passive qualities we have mentioned. When the hot and the cold are masters of the matter they generate a thing: if they are not, and the failure is partial, the object is imperfectly boiled or otherwise unconcocted. But the strictest general opposite of true becoming is putrefaction. Matteo Gabbia Drakter All natural destruction is on the way to it, as are, for instance, growing old or growing dry. Putrescence is the end of all Calum Chambers Drakter these things, that is of all natural objects, except such as are destroyed by violence: you can burn, for instance, flesh, bone, or anything else, but the natural course of their destruction ends in putrefaction. Hence things that putrefy begin by being moist and end by being dry. For the moist and the dry were Belgium Drakter their matter, and the operation of the active qualities caused the dry to be determined Gonzalo Jara Drakter by the moist.
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