על שהאל הוא ללא שינוי ט׳On the Unchangeableness of God 9
א׳
1[41] Life was made by its creator different from growth in three ways. It has sensation, “presentation,” impulse. For plants have no impulse, no “presentation,” no gift of sense-perception, while each living creature participates in all three combined.
ב׳
2[42] Sensation or sense, as the name itself shews, is “a putting in,” and introduces what has appeared to it to the mind. For mind is a vast and receptive storehouse in which all that comes through sight or hearing and the other organs of sense is placed and treasured.
ג׳
3[43] “Presentation” is an imprint made on the soul. For, like a ring or seal, it stamps on the soul the image corresponding to everything which each of the senses has introduced. And the mind like wax receives the impress and retains it vividly, until forgetfulness the opponent of memory levels out the imprint, and makes it indistinct, or entirely effaces it.
ד׳
4[44] But the object which has presented itself and made the impression has an effect upon the soul sometimes of an appropriate kind, sometimes the reverse. And this condition or state of the soul is called impulse or appetite, which has been defined as the first movement of the soul.
ה׳
5[45] In all these ways living creatures excel plants. Let us now see where man has been made superior to other animals.