Indeed, I am convinced that God, who undoubtedly was able to create an infmity of substances of a different nature, since His essence, being infinite, can be participated in in an infinity of ways, chose (in addition to the minds He created to be possessed of Him) matter, because He wanted an infmitely divisible subject to correspond to His inexhaustible wisdom, a subject that by its essence could set no limits at all on the exercise of His art and power; I am also convinced that if matter were reduced to nothing through the division of its parts, or to an indivisible part, and if it were thus capable of arresting the simple course and fecundity of Providence, He would never have drawn it out of nonbeing.