5p40d.md (312B)
1 In proportion as each thing is more perfect, it 2 possesses more of reality (II. Def. vi.), and, consequently (III. 3 iii. and note), it is to that extent more active and less 4 passive. This demonstration may be reversed, and thus prove 5 that, in proportion as a thing is more active, so is it more 6 perfect. Q.E.D. 7 8