What a Piece of Work is a Man
how noble in reason, how
infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and
admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like
a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals. - Hamlet
It’s stuff like this that marks us off from the entire created order as rational animals. No angel can do this (lacking a body) and no animal would do it (lacking reason). We alone, out of all of creation do such things, sheerly for the joy of it. Thanks be to God for making such a thing as man.
