MOVEMENT AS A FORM OF POWER.

Let us, indeed, suppose, that something which formerly was a

potentiality succeeds in assuming a form, as "potentiality that becomes

a statue," or that passes to actualization, as a man's walk.[421] In

the case where the metal becomes a statue, this passage is a movement;

in the case of the walking, the walk itself is a movement, like the

dance, with one who is capable of it. In the movement of the first

kind, where the metal passes into the condition of being a statue,

there is the production of another form which is realized by the

movement.[422] The movement of the second kind, the dance, is a simple

form of the potentiality, and, when it has ceased, leaves nothing that

subsists after it.[423]

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