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This is one kind of motion. But there is another kind which occurs in bodies which change their position, or as we say, pass from one place to another; the name of this is transference. Conveyance, transport, transit; purely mechanical or passive motion, as distinguished from ateration (qualitative change).
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These two kinds of motion, then, are simple and primary, while compounded from them we have growth and decay, Waxing and waning, the latter literally phthisis, a wasting or decline; cf. Scotch dwining, Dutch verdwijnen. as when a small thing becomes bigger, or a big thing smaller, each retaining at the same time its particular form. And two other kinds of motion are genesis and destruction,Becoming and perishing: Latin generation et corruptio. genesis being a coming into existence, Ad substantiam productio seu ad formam processus (Linacre). and destruction being the opposite.
