But since it is not reasonable to think that God should create a work only to annihilate it or to let it fall into a state worse than nothingness, it is clear that God would not have made man nor have permitted his sin (which He had foreseen) unless He had the Incarnation of His Son in view, in whom all things subsist, and by whom the universe receives a beauty, a perfection and a grandeur worthy ofthe wisdom and power of its Author.