Speaking generally, rest is the contrary of
motion. But the different forms of
motion have their own contraries in other forms; thus destruction is the contrary of generation, diminution of increase, rest in a place, of change of place.
Heat is but the
motion of atoms, a simple oscillation of the particles of a body.
Nor does this --its amazing strength, at all tend to cripple the graceful flexion of its
motions; where infantileness of ease undulates through a Titanism of power.
Just as in the mechanism of a clock, so in the mechanism of the military machine, an impulse once given leads to the final result; and just as indifferently quiescent till the moment when
motion is transmitted to them are the parts of the mechanism which the impulse has not yet reached.
This
motion, faithful to the laws of mechanics, would have been accelerated with the diminution of its volume; and a moment would have arrived when the centrifugal force would have overpowered the centripetal, which causes the molecules all to tend toward the center.
When one of these is discontent, the danger is not great; for common people are of slow
motion, if they be not excited by the greater sort; and the greater sort are of small strength, except the multitude be apt, and ready to move of themselves.
For, after these things, it is not necessary for me to say anything more with a view to explain the
motion of the heart, except that when its cavities are not full of blood, into these the blood of necessity flows, - - from the hollow vein into the right, and from the venous artery into the left; because these two vessels are always full of blood, and their orifices, which are turned towards the heart, cannot then be closed.
'She one day pretended that her doll was sick; and went through all the
motions of tending it, and giving it medicine; she then put it carefully to bed, and placed a bottle of hot water to its feet, laughing all the time most heartily.
By this oblique
motion, the island is conveyed to different parts of the monarch's dominions.
Many are the enactments made at different times in the different States of Flatland, in order to minimize this peril; and in the Southern and less temperate climates where the force of gravitation is greater, and human beings more liable to casual and involuntary
motions, the Laws concerning Women are naturally much more stringent.
If consciousness is the product of rhythm all things ARE conscious, for all have
motion, and all
motion is rhythmic.
"And could the astronomers have understood and calculated anything, if they had taken into account all the complicated and varied
motions of the earth?