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Though creation must necessarily be finite, it yet shows that the Creator comprehends the infinite. Infinity is shown to exist in prolifications, for there is no limit in either plants or animals to the capacity to multiply, though external conditions may prevent. A grain of wheat has in itself the capacity to convert the earth into one field of wheat in about thirty years. A school of fish has the potency to fill the ocean in a short time with its prolification. There are no two faces, no two leaves, no two blades of grass precisely alike, nor can there ever be. Nature is a constant succession of varying effects. The capacity to continue varied effects for eternity, which essential the Creator has, proves that the Creator embraces the Infinite.

The Creator is also omnipotent; not because He can do an impossible thing or violate the laws of His own operation, but because all power originates in Him. He is omnipotent in the sense that He, as the term omnipotent (omnis-potens) implies, embraces all power that is.