Cuius ex eo maxime fortuna ammirabilis fuit, quod, licet omnia temporum Momenta ad exercenda atrocitatis officia contulisset, senectute uitam, non ferro, finierit.
"Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn"
R. W. Chambers
On the one hand the components of organic matter are regarded as falling from positions of unstable equilibrium to positions of stable equilibrium; on the other hand, "they give out in their falls certain Momenta-Momenta that may be manifested as heat, light, electricity, nerve-force, or mechanical motion, according as the conditions determine."
"Herbert Spencer"
J. Arthur Thomson