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What two?Athenian
Those, my good sir, for the sake of which, one may say, the whole of our present enquiry was undertaken.Clinias
Explain more clearly.Athenian
It was undertaken, was it not, for the sake of soul?Clinias
Certainly.Athenian
As one of the two let us count that motion which is always able to move other things, but unable to move itself; and that motion which always is able to move both itself and other things,—by way of combination and separation, of increase and decrease, of generation and corruption,—let us count as another separate unit
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