From these considerations it is clear that in one regard
that which is eternally moved by the eternal mover is moved in the
same way as every living creature, in another regard differently,
and so while it is moved eternally, the movement of living creatures
has a term. Now the eternal beautiful, and the truly and primarily
good (which is not at one time good, at another time not good), is too
divine and precious to be relative to anything else. The prime mover
then moves, itself being unmoved, whereas desire and its faculty are
moved and so move. But it is not necessary for the last in the chain
of things moved to move something else; wherefore it is plainly
reasonable that motion in place should be the last of what happens
in the region of things happening, since the living creature is
moved and goes forward by reason of desire or purpose, when some
alteration has been set going on the occasion of sensation or
imagination.
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But how is it that thought (viz. sense, imagination, and thought
proper) is sometimes followed by action, sometimes not; sometimes by
movement, sometimes not? What happens seems parallel to the case of
thinking and inferring about the immovable objects of science.
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