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(2) That immanent part of a growing thing, from which its growth first
proceeds. (3) The source from which the primary movement in each
natural object is present in it in virtue of its own essence. Those
things are said to grow which derive increase from something else by
contact and either by organic unity, or by organic adhesion as in
the case of embryos. Organic unity differs from contact; for in the
latter case there need not be anything besides the contact, but in
organic unities there is something identical in both parts, which
makes them grow together instead of merely touching, and be one in
respect of continuity and quantity, though not of quality.-(4)
'Nature' means the primary material of which any natural object
consists or out of which it is made, which is relatively unshaped
and cannot be changed from its own potency, as e.g. bronze is said
to be the nature of a statue and of bronze utensils, and wood the
nature of wooden things; and so in all other cases; for when a product
is made out of these materials, the first matter is preserved
throughout. For it is in this way that people call the elements of
natural objects also their nature, some naming fire, others earth,
others air, others water, others something else of the sort, and
some naming more than one of these, and others all of them.-(5)
'Nature' means the essence of natural objects, as with those who say
the nature is the primary mode of composition, or as Empedocles says:-
Nothing that is has a nature,
But only mixing and parting of the mixed,
And nature is but a name given them by men
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