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Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 2

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2. But let us leave the arts and consider those works produced by Nature and admitted to be naturally beautiful which the creations of art are charged with imitating, all reasoning life and unreasoning things alike, but especially the consummate among them, where the moulder and maker has subdued the material and given the form he desired. Now what is the beauty here?