Now we say that (a) the continuous is one or that (b) the indivisible is one, or (c) things are said to be “one”, when their essence is one and the same, as “liquor” and “drink”. If (a) their One is one in the sense of continuous, it is many, for the continuous is divisible ad infinitum.
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Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.