“The ancients, persuaded that there is no body without a moving force, regarded the substance of bodies as composed of two primitive attributes.”

—  Julien Offray de La Mettrie

It was held that, through one of these attributes, this substance has the capacity for moving and, through the other, the capacity for being moved.
Source: The Natural History of the Soul (1745), Ch. V Concerning the Moving Force of Matter

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