"...This maxim is altogether to my liking and I draw from it this conclusion that God does the very best possible: otherwise the exercise of his goodness would be restricted and that would be restricting his goodness itself if it did not prompt him to the best if he were lacking in good will. Or again it would be restricting his wisdom and his power if he lacked the knowledge necessary for discerning the best and for finding the means to obtain it or if he lacked the strength necessary for employing these means. There is however ambiguity in the assertion that love of virtue and hatred of vice are infinite in God: if that were abso-lutely and unreservedly true in practice there would be no vice in the world. But although each one of God's perfections is infinite in itself it is exercised only in proportion to the object and as the nature of things prompts it..."