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Anaxagoras·Greek·fragmentary

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Fragments from a single work, probably called On Nature. Anaxagoras proposed that Mind (Nous) is the ordering principle of the cosmos, separate from matter and infinite in power.

All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness. And when all things were together, none of them could be distinguished because of their smallness.

But Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing, but is alone by itself. Mind has power over all things that have life, both the greater and the smaller. And Mind controlled the whole rotation, so that it began to rotate in the beginning.

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