As God has made the soul immortal, he has made the universe infinite, if it is true that eternity is nothing other than unlimited duration and infinity is space without limits. Suppose the universe were not infinite: God himself would be finite, because he could not be where there is nothing, and he could not increase the size of the universe without adding to his own size and come to be where he had not been before.
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Cyrano de Bergerac was a 17th-century French novelist and dramatist. Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian, and duelist. Read more on Wikipedia →

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