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cycleIn physics, a sequence of changes in which a system moves away from, and then back to, its original state. An example is a vibration in which a particle moves first in one direction and then in the opposite direction, with the particle returning to its original position at the end of the each cycle. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The pre-Trojan poems of the Cycle may be noticed first. Generalizing what occurs in the case of hunger, we may say that what we call a desire in an animal is always displayed in a cycle of actions having certain fairly well marked characteristics. As we find cycle within cycle without end, -- yet all revolving around one far-distant centre which is the God-head, may we not analogically suppose in the same manner, life within life, the less within the greater, and all within the Spirit Divine? |
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