This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... is voit, resulting in the function of vo'70-ir or Btapla, often characterised as 'divine.' But the same organising principle, which appears in man as voit, appears in the irrational animals (and in plants) as a nisus impelling them to purify the specific form, or ?8or, from the incidents of individual ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... is voit, resulting in the function of vo'70-ir or Btapla, often characterised as 'divine.' But the same organising principle, which appears in man as voit, appears in the irrational animals (and in plants) as a nisus impelling them to purify the specific form, or ?8or, from the incidents of individual decay and death, and make it eternal in the race (see de An. ii. 4. 415 a. 29). While individual animals seem to live Koto wdBos, for themselves, and to satisfy merely their own immediate wants, there is all the while at work within them 'an eternal principle not themselves' (6u6v ), by which their behaviour is regulated in conformity with a plan which includes all Nature: romin-ijs dpxnt jjprrfrai 6 uvpayis nai j/ tpvait (Mel. A. 7. 1072 b. 13). The Aristotelian God is the abstract of all the various modes of the organising nisus in Nature. He is described as iripytia di3ios--eternal function; and this eternal function is also said to be 17801//) Met. A. 7. 1072 b. 16). Inasmuch, then, as the lives, or Mpyam, of all creatures are particular cases of this one cWp-vfia dtdiot, which is li&otri, all creatures may be said T!jv avrrjv diaMi sokijk. Ociok Cf. de An. ii. 4. 415 a. 29, where it is said that living creatures propagate their kinds 1a Tov dl al row 6Wou /iituhw jj dvrtunrat.-n-apaPdXXf iv els auT s sc. tavrois according to Michelet: but b. 34. the Index takes it intransitively=' to pass over to' 'to incline to': SO the Aid. Schol. ol irXtiovts itpbs Tar aioparucat paikop penouo-i. Sid T6 p.oVa.5 oflV yfupipous K.t.x. Cf. the simile M.M. ii. 7. 1205 D. 35. b. 13 dAX ol pdoKovrs aval Tr/v Tjbnvv ov cnroi/daiai, vfnovBaoiv olov ui pi/ flSoTts TO viKTap olovrai roiif Bcovs owov itlvfiv, leal...
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