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Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE: Section 3

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3. Anyone who rejects this view, and holds that either atoms or some entities void of part coming together produce soul, is refuted by the very unity of soul and by the prevailing sympathy as much as by the very coherence of the constituents. Bodily materials, in nature repugnant to unification and to sensation, could never produce unity or self-sensitiveness, and soul is self-sensitive.