progeny of her fecundity; just as the sun’s rays are many, yet the light is one, and a tree’s branches are many, yet the strength deriving from its sturdy root is one. So too, though many streams flow from a single spring, though its multiplicity seems scattered abroad by the copiousness of its welling waters,44 yet their oneness abides by reason of their starting point.45 Cut off one of the sun’s rays—the unity of that body permits no [such] division of its light;46 break off a branch from the tree,