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Fragments of the Lost Writings of Proclus: Arguments in Proof of the Eternity of the World: Argument the Fourteenth

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Every artist either gives subsistence to the matter of that which is the subject of his art, or he causes the matter which already exists to be adapted to his purpose. And if he makes the matter which already exists to be adapted to his purpose, he makes the matter [on which his art operates]. For the thing which is properly adapted to his purpose, indicates the matter [of his art], and not simply a subject.

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