The Summary of Physics Restored

37As the maker's final labour, like the work's centre or crowning addition, the human being at last appeared: a compendium of the world's fabric and a little image of divine nature. The creator deferred his birth to the last part of the sixth day and of the whole work, so that all nature's rich furnishings and all the gifts of higher and lower things might flow into human nature as into another Pandora. Thus, when the things of the universe were already ordered, the human being was added to complete the work, the one thing still lacking. Nature, strengthened by manifold light, could then bring purer elements together into a perfect temperament, and purer clay was available to fashion so exquisite an earthen vessel. The lower globe and its inhabitants required such a ruler, so that they would not refuse the yoke of obedience.