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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 10

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10. The upholder of Happening must be asked how this false happening can be supposed to have come about, taking it that it did, and haw the happening, then, is not universally prevalent. If there is to be a natural scheme at all, it must be admitted that this happening does not and cannot exist: for if we attribute to chance the Principle which is to eliminate chance from all the rest, how can there ever be anything independent of chance?

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 10

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