Disputationes tres (1583) - Page 5

III.
Furthermore, we establish that both animate and inanimate things have a Nature, since both contain the principle of their motion within themselves: yet so that Nature is predicated of both these κατὰ πρότερον καὶ ὕστερον according to priority and posteriority, that is, the Nature by which Animals are moved is more excellent and noble than that which is in things lacking a soul.

IIII.
Finally, we conclude that the term Nature is also rightly attributed to both Matter and Form, according to Aristotle: yet so that the Form is said to be a more noble and excellent Nature than the Matter.

SECOND DISPUTATION

on Physical Mixture held in the same place,

with M. Eusebius Celeberus Responding,

in the Year of Christ 1564, on the

29th day of June.

On the Mixture of natural things or Elements.

QUESTION.

Since there have been some among the Philosophers who, seduced by false arguments, denied that Mixture exists in natural things, and above all, were ignorant of the manner and method by which Mixture occurs, not rashly