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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 3

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3. "Atoms" or "elements"- it is in either case an absurdity, an impossibility, to hand over the universe and its contents to material entities, and out of the disorderly swirl thus occasioned to call order, reasoning, and the governing soul into being; but the atomic origin is, if we may use the phrase, the most impossible. A good deal of truth has resulted from the discussion of this subject; but, even to admit such principles does not compel us to admit universal compulsion or any kind of…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 3

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