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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTATE: Section 10

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10. Further: If Matter were susceptible of modification, it must acquire something by the incoming of the new state; it will either adopt that state, or, at least, it will be in some way different from what it was. Now upon this first incoming quality suppose a second to supervene; the recipient is no longer Matter but a modification of Matter: this second quality, perhaps, departs, but it has acted and therefore leaves something of itself after it; the substratum is still further altered.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTATE: Section 10

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