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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 11

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11. The administration of the kosmos is to be thought of as that of a living unit: there is the action determined by what is external, and has to do with the parts, and there is that determined by the internal and by the principle: thus a doctor basing his treatment on externals and on the parts directly affected will often be baffled and obliged to all sorts of calculation, while Nature will act on the basis of principle and need no deliberation. And in so far as the kosmos is a conducted…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 11

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