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For animals do not see in order that they may have sight, but they
have sight that they may see. And similarly men have the art of
building that they may build, and theoretical science that they may
theorize; but they do not theorize that they may have theoretical
science, except those who are learning by practice; and these do not
theorize except in a limited sense, or because they have no need to
theorize. Further, matter exists in a potential state, just because it
may come to its form; and when it exists actually, then it is in its
form. And the same holds good in all cases, even those in which the
end is a movement. And so, as teachers think they have achieved
their end when they have exhibited the pupil at work, nature does
likewise. For if this is not the case, we shall have Pauson's Hermes
over again, since it will be hard to say about the knowledge, as about
the figure in the picture, whether it is within or without. For the
action is the end, and the actuality is the action. And so even the
word 'actuality' is derived from 'action', and points to the
complete reality.
And while in some cases the exercise is the ultimate thing (e.g.
in sight the ultimate thing is seeing, and no other product besides
this results from sight), but from some things a product follows (e.g.
from the art of building there results a house as well as the act of
building), yet none the less the act is in the former case the end and
in the latter more of an end than the potency is
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