'What is it?' said I.
'Why,' said she, 'since God is rightly believed to govern all things with the rudder of goodness, and since all things do likewise, as I have taught, haste towards good by the very aim of nature, can it be doubted that His governance is willingly accepted, and that all submit themselves to the sway of the Disposer as conformed and attempered to His rule?'
'Necessarily so,' said I; 'no rule would seem happy if it were a yoke imposed on reluctant wills, and not the safe-keeping of obedient subjects.'
'There is nothing, then, which, while it follows nature, endeavours to resist good.'
'No; nothing.'
'But if anything should, will it have the least success against Him whom we rightly agreed to be supreme Lord of happiness?'
'It would be utterly impotent.'
'There is nothing, then, which has either the will or the power to oppose this supreme good.'
'No; I think not.'
'So, then,' said she, 'it is the supreme good which rules in strength, and graciously disposes all things.'