Platonism in English Poetry of the Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries
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vii) these two truths of his philosophy are not specifically elaborated. To More, however, as indeed to all students of Plotinian metaphysics, these are the significant ideas of his system. More thus brings them in at opportune times throughout his argument in "Psychathanasia." The conception of the ever present unity of 198 PLATONISM IN ENGLISH POETRY The One in all tilings is the fundamental idea in the first division of his thought. The te- nacity with which he clings to this doctrine is rem...arkable. His argument had brought him to the point where he had shown that all life — of plants and animals, as well as of men — was immortal. What, then, is the state of the plantal and animal soul after death? (I. ii. 49-53.) More does not answer directly, but replies that although men cannot know this, it is not permitted to reason it down. " But it's already clear that 'tis not right To reason down the firm subsistencie Of things from ignorance of their propertie." (I. ii. 59.) Consequently when he comes to consider man's immortality, he says that all the preceding argument — the general reflection on the " self- motion and centrall stabilitie " of the soul — may be dismissed as needless.
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