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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTATE: Section 6

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6. We return, then, to the question whether there could be light if there were no air, the sun illuminating corporeal surfaces across an intermediate void which, as things are, takes the light accidentally by the mere fact of being in the path. Supposing air to be the cause of the rest of things being thus affected, the substantial existence of light is due to the air; light becomes a modification of the air, and of course if the thing to be modified did not exist neither could be modification.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTATE: Section 6

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