rceive by looking at the tree. I may come up with
several theories, one of which may happen to be the correct one, but with no prior
experience on which to base these guesses, I would have no way of knowing which theory
was correct. Philo objects to the use of only human intelligence as the benchmark by
which to measure the order of the universe. Nature is also an example of a great wealth of
order and arrangement that coexists with the human mind in the universe. He believes that
by comparing the order that is present in the universe, being the whole, to the order that
appears in the parts, being the human mind and nature,
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