DEFINITION OF ALTERATION.

22. Granting that alteration is the same thing as movement, so far as

the result of movement is to render something other than it was, (we

still have to ask) what then is movement? To indulge in a figurative

expression,[343] it is the passage of potentiality to the actualization

of which it is the potentiality.[420]

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