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art or both admits least alteration by something
else.” “So it seems.” “But God,
surely, and everything that belongs to God is in every way in the best
possible state.” “Of course.” “From
this point of view, then, it would be least of all likely that there would
be many forms in God.” “Least
indeed.”“But would he
transform and alter himself?” “Obviously,” he
said, “if he is altered.” “Then does he change
himself for the better and to something fairer, or for the worse1 and to something uglier than
himself?”
1 So Aristotle Met. 1074 b 26.
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