as colour and taste as taste. He maintained the same regarding all other genera: things are what they are only because they were created that way. Man did not make things what they are, nor are they what they are because he made them so.

He said: “Most speculative thinkers rejected the transformation of accidents into bodies and bodies into accidents. They held this to be impossible, because transformation consists only in removing accidents and bringing other accidents into existence, whereas accidents cannot bear accidents. They advanced numerous arguments.”

I say: The former view is held by various groups of scholars, among them