Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 02 — CCEL UTF-8 text — Section 1441
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Work: Ante-Nicene Fathers — Volume 2
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 2
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For of objects that are moved, some are moved by impulse and appearance, as animals; and some by transposition, as inanimate objects. And of things without life, plants, they say, are moved by transposition in order to growth, if we will concede to them that plants are without life. To stones, then, belongs a permanent state. Plants have a nature; and the irrational animals possess impulse and perception, and likewise the two characteristics already specified. [2391] But the reasoning faculty, being peculiar to the human soul, ought not to be impelled similarly with the irrational anim…
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