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    Such a world would be ordered only to natural perfection,... — Carmelics
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    Supports→An eternally populated world is conceivable without requiring an actual infinity of souls.

    Such a world would be ordered only to natural perfection, not supernatural happiness.

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    Godfrey comments that this objection can also be formulated more forcefully in terms of human souls, i.e., the actual infinity of human souls that would have resulted from an eternal world eternally populated by human beings with immortal souls. Aquinas had considered this form of the objection in his De aeternitate mundi, and had noted that it has not yet been demonstrated that God could not produce an actual infinity of spiritual beings. Godfrey does not adopt this solution, presumably because

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