[445] Phaedr., 245, C; Legg., 892, A.
[446] Adv. Col., ix., 3.
[447] Enn., IV., ii., i.
[448] Enn., IV., ii., sub fin.; Tim., 35, A.
[449] Enn., V., ix.
[450] Enn., IV., viii.
[451] Enn., V., ix., 2.
[452] Readers of Pope’s Essay on Man will recognise this argument. It was, in fact, borrowed from Plotinus by Leibnitz, and handed on through Bolingbroke to Pope. There is no better introduction to Neo-Platonism than this beautiful poem.
[453] Kirchner, Ph. d. Plot., p. 35. The triad of body, soul, and spirit is still to be met with in modern popular philosophy; but, contrary to the Greek order of priority, there is a noticeable tendency to rank soul, as the seat of emotion, higher than spirit or pure reason, particularly among persons whose opinions receive little countenance from the last-mentioned faculty.
[454] Rep., VI., 508, C ff.; VII., 517, C.