I know by experience, that it is a great comfort to a swimmer, who has a considerable distance to go, to turn himself sometimes on his back, and to vary in other respects the means of procuring a progressive motion.
The WALK is a method ofprogressive motion with a regular individual succession of limb movements.
It made progress, and so it was a progressive motion.
An oyster which appears to have no external sense or progressive motion, is a being formed to sleep for ever.
I mention it merely as likely, and founded on principles of analogy, since all organized beings, which are destitute of sense, are likewise destitute of progressive motion, and that all those which possess the one have also the other.
But of progressive motion, action, and sentiment, they will be equally destitute; nor be endowed with any interior or apparent character by which animal life may be distinguished.
Yet if one consider the subject attentively, this does not prove the necessity of a rising motion, nor refute the notion of a progressive motion.
On the surface some large transparent air bubbles, which have no motion, generally appear, though sometimes these bubbles stir and seem to have a progressive motion, but which is nothing more than the agitation of the air.
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