... way or other. In one sense, then, they begin the war; they take the first step, and they are the source of all the motionwhich is the war. But in another sense, they take direction from their ... tech-nology, two theories of the essence of beings in general, namely, ancienttechnology and modern technology. The history of these theories, the gradual supplanting of the first by the second, ... merelyundergoes the action of the other, the agent; it is the patient, that whichsuffers or undergoes the activity of the agent. The matter does not impose the form of a chalice onto itself. The matter...