So that according to this view, which will appear strange and incongruous only to those who measure the marvels of God's infinite power by the ideas of sense and imagination, it might be said (I) that in a single apple seed there are apple trees, apples, and apple seeds, standing in the proponion of a fully grown tree to the tree in its seed, for an infinite, or nearly infinite number of centuries; that nature's role is only to unfold these tiny trees by providing perceptible growth for that outside its seed, and imperceptible yet very real growth in proponion to their size, for those thought to be in their seed for it cannot be doubted that there are bodies sufficiently small to get in between the fibers of these trees thought to be in their seed and thus to serve as food for them.