Why, therefore, do you presume to assert that there are not only six hundred thousand worlds, but that they are innumerable?
Reason tells you so.

Will not reason tell you likewise that as, in our inquiries into the most excellent nature, we find none but the divine nature can be happy and eternal, so the same divine nature surpasses us in excellence of mind; and as in mind, so in body?
Why, therefore, as we are inferior in all other respects, should we be equal in form?
For human virtue approaches nearer to the divinity than human form.
XXXV.

To return to the subject I was upon.

What can be more childish than to assert that there are no such creatures as are generated in the Red Sea or in India?
The most curious inquirer cannot arrive at the knowledge of all those creatures which inhabit the earth, sea, fens, and rivers; and shall we deny the existence of them because we never saw them?
That similitude which you are so very fond of is nothing to the purpose.

Is not a dog like a wolf?
And, as Ennius says, The monkey, filthiest beast, how like to man! Yet they differ in nature.