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Athenian
Ath. Those, my good sir, for the sake of which, one may say, the whole of our present enquiry was undertaken.
Clinias
Clin. Explain more clearly.
Athenian
Ath. It was undertaken, was it not, for the sake of soul?
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Athenian
Ath. As one of the two let us count that motion which is always able to move other things, but unable to move itself; and that motion which always is able to move both itself and other things,—by way of combination and separation, of increase and decrease, of generation and corruption,—let us count as another separate unit in the total number of motions.
Athenian
Ath. Thus we shall reckon as ninth on the list that motion which always moves another object and is moved by another; while that motion which moves both itself and another, and which is harmoniously adapted to all forms of action and passion, and is termed the real change and motion of all that really exists,—it, I presume, we shall call the tenth.
Clinias
Clin. Most certainly.
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Athenian
Ath. Of our total of ten motions, which shall we most correctly adjudge to be the most powerful of all and excelling in effectiveness?
Clinias
Clin. We are bound to affirm that the motion which is able to move itself excels infinitely, and that all the rest come after it.
Athenian
Ath. Well said. Must we, then, alter one or two of the wrong statements we have now made?
Clinias
Clin. Which do you mean?
Athenian
Ath. Our statement about the tenth seems wrong.
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