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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTATE...

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8. It is a general principle that, to be modified, an object must be opposed in faculty, and in quality to the forces that enter and act upon it. Thus where heat is present, the change comes by something that chills, where damp by some drying agency: we say a subject is modified when from warm it becomes cold, from dry wet.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTATE...

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