מי יורש קנייני אלוה ל״אWho is the Heir of Divine Things 31
א׳
1[154] If we went into each case, we could prolong the consideration of the subject to infinity. For we should find on observation that the smallest animals are proportionally equal to the largest, as the swallow to the eagle, the mullet to the whale, and the ant to the elephant. For their body, soul and feelings, whether of pain or pleasure, and also their affinities and their aversions and every other sensation of which animal nature is capable, are with hardly an exception alike when equalized by the rule of proportion.
ב׳
2[155] On this principle some have ventured to affirm that the tiny animal man is equal to the whole world, because each consists of body and reasonable soul, and thus they declare that man is a small world and alternatively the world a great man.
ג׳
3[156] This pronouncement of theirs is not wide of the mark. They judge that the master art of God by which He wrought all things is one that admits of no heightening or lowering of intensity but always remains the same and that through its transcendent excellence it has wrought in perfection each thing that is, every number and every form that tends to perfectness being used to the full by the Maker.
