Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

Man consists of more pieces, more parts, than the world ; than the world doth, nay than the world is. And if those pieces were exten­ded, and stret­ched out in man as they are in the world, man would be the giant, and the world the dwarf ; the world but the map, and the man the world. If all the veins in our bodies were exten­ded to rivers, and all the sinews to veins of mines, and all the muscles that lie upon one ano­ther, to hil­ls, and all the bones to quar­ries of stones, and all the other pieces to the pro­por­tion of those which cor­res­pond to them in the world, the air would be too lit­tle for this orb of man to move in, the fir­ma­ment would be but enough for this star ; for, as the whole world hath nothing, to which some­thing in man doth not ans­wer, so hath man many pieces of which the whole world hath no repre­sen­ta­tion.