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 32 THE CLASSICAL HERITAGE [chap, ii in the younger Pliny, a comprehensive stately view of human affairs in Tacitus ; and the Coptic Greek Plotinus might create a final dialectic structure, the rational foundations of which were crowned with a super-rational ecstasy. But there was not sufficient strength in latter-day paganism to make a living unity out of these elements.