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1820. May 27.
Posology.

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Question 14. Why, then, in speaking of a motion,
do we speak of it as if it were something real? something
distinct from a body? why do we speak of it as if
it were a body? Why is it that I may say to you you were just
now in motion,or I may say to you you were just now
in your own house?

Answer. We speak of motions in this manner,
because there is no other in which we can speak
of them: and there is good in it, because we have often
need of speaking of it, and if we did not speak of it
in this manner, we could not speak of it at all. What
we thus say of them is not exactly true. There is, however,
no harm in it because no body is, or can be, deceived
by it

Question 15. What is rest?

Answer. When a body is thought not to be
in motion, it is said to be at rest.

Question 15+. Are there, then, any bodies that
are absolutely at rest?

Answer. None that we know of: our
own earth, the earth on which we live and move, and
have our being, we are certain is never at rest.

Question 16. Are not spaces said to be sometimes
in motion as well as bodies?

Answer. No: at least there is no use in
saying so. A space is of no use to us but in virtue of by reason of the
bodies it contains, or gives passage to, or serves us to measure
the distance of one from another. If there were no
body, there would be no motion: for there would be nothing
to move.

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