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Excerpt from Two Books on the Essence of Soul: And One on the Descent of Soul This pamphlet is published as a specimen of an English version of the entire writings of Plotinus, which I am now making, and which I propose to finish as soon as possible. I am satisfied that one of the greatest boons which can be con ferred on this and future generations is an English translation of Plotinus, undoubtedly one of the profoundest philosophers that ever energized within the World of Sense. His influence during the period of his mundane existence was extensive and predominant, and practically shaped the truly intellectual spec alations of the third and immediately subsequent centuries. Eunapius, writing in the' fourth century, says that the public places are nowthe altars of Plotinus, and his books are not only in the hands of those skilled in the Platonic doctrines, but even if the multitude incidentally and superficially refer to a philosophic dogma it will prove to he of Plotinian origin. After his return to the Intelligible World, whence he came, his immortal writings circulated and expounded by his numer ous and able disciples, who constituted the golden chain of the Platonic succession, were productive' of incalculable benefit to the philosophic class of mankind, until a brutal, barbarous edict closed the School of Philosophy at Athens and thereby struck from the intellectual firmament the only luminary that remained of a once brilliant galaxy. The names of Plotinus and other philosophic heroes sunk into obscurity and were only mentioned to be ignorantly abused and calumniated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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