229. Some people maintain that there is a substance so simple as not to be a form composed of lesser forms, and that through conglomerations there arise from that substance secondary or composite substances, and finally the substances called material substances. But in fact such simplest substances do not exist. For what is a substance without form? It is something of which nothing can be predicated, and from something of which nothing can be predicated, nothing can be composed through conglomerations of it. The fact is that the very first created substances, which are the least and simplest substances, have in them constituents beyond number, as we will see in subsequent discussions where we take up forms.