QUALITY CONSISTS IN A NON-ESSENTIAL CHARACTER.

What part do the powers (or, potentialities) play here? The man who is

naturally capable of boxing owes it to a certain disposition. It is so

also with somebody who is unskilful in something. In general, quality

consists in a non-essential characteristic; what seems to contribute to

the being, or to add to it, as color, whiteness, and color in general,

contributes to the beings as far as it constitutes something distinct

therefrom, and is its actualization; but it occupies a rank inferior

to being; and though derived therefrom, it adds itself thereto as

something foreign, as an image and adumbration.

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