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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: NINTH TRACTATE: Section 2

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2.... For in any one science the reduction of the total of knowledge into its separate propositions does not shatter its unity, chipping it into unrelated fragments; in each distinct item is talent the entire body of the science, an integral thing in its highest Principle and its last detail: and similarly a man must so discipline himself that the first Principles of his Being are also his completions, are totals, that all be pointed towards the loftiest phase of the Nature: when a man has…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: NINTH TRACTATE: Section 2

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