It would be more appropriate or at least more useful for my readers to dwell upon the infinite wisdom of the Creator, who in the creation of the universe so distributed and directed motion to the different parts of matter that He formed from it a work all of whose parts mutually depend on each other, a work that is conserved and constantly renewed through the general and simplest imaginable law that every body is moved in the direction in which it is most pressed, and to the extent to which it is pressed, I say a law that, let it be noted, does not draw its efficacy from matter a purely passive substance whose motor force is nothing in it or belonging to it, as I have proved in the fifteenth Elucidation and elsewhere but a law that the Almighty created and observes exactly in the ordinary course of His general providence over the arrangement of bodies, not only to endow His conduct with the character of His attributes in which He finds His law and motives, as I have proved elsewhere, but also to give to men and even to animals certain rules in order to preserve and conduct themselves.