Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration.

God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.

On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life.

Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?