And this thought is worthy of the power and wisdom of God: of His power, since in an instant He made all His works in their greatest perfection; of His wisdom, because He thereby made it known that He perfectly foresaw everything that would necessarily happen in matter if it were agitated by the simplest means, and again because the order of nature could not subsist if the world had been produced in a manner contrary to the laws of motion by which it is preserved, as I have just said.