Excerpt from Plotinus: On the One and Good; Being the Treatises of the Sixth Ennead, Translated From the Greek These thinkers rejected pure unity on the ground of the plurality observed even in the Intellectual world they rejected an infinite number as not reconcilable with the facts and as defying knowledge considering the foundations of being to be genera rather than elements strictly so called, they concluded for a finite number. Of these genera some found ten, others less, others no doubt more. 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.