“Truly, we have.”

“Then, He will need no external assistance for the ruling of the world. Otherwise, if He stands in need of aught, He will not possess complete independence.”

“That is necessarily so,” said I.

“Then, by His own power alone He disposes all things.”

“It cannot be denied.”

“Now, God was proved to be absolute good.”

“Yes; I remember.”

“Then, He disposes all things by the agency of good, if it be true that He rules all things by His own power whom we have agreed to be good; and He is, as it were, the rudder and helm by which the world’s mechanism is kept steady and in order.”