MOVEMENT IS MORE THAN THE NEGATION OF REST.

It may perhaps be asked, why is movement not rather the negation of

rest? We shall then answer that movement (is something positive), that

it brings something with it; that it has some efficiency, that it

communicates an impulsion to the subject, that produces or destroys

many things; stillness, on the contrary, is nothing outside of the

subject which is still, and means no more than that the latter is still.

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