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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTA...

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45. From this discussion it becomes perfectly clear that the individual member of the All contributes to that All in the degree of its kind and condition; thus it acts and is acted upon. In any particular animal each of the limbs and organs, in the measure of its kind and purpose, aids the entire being by service performed and counts in rank and utility: it gives what is in it its gift and takes from its fellows in the degree of receptive power belonging to its kind; there is something like a…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTA...

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