Creatures in the Other Regions of the Heavens Immeasurably Superior to Man

[Palingenius] argued that there must be creatures in the other regions of the heavens immeasurably superior to man, since it is inconceivable that “the infinite power of God”’ can have exhausted itself with the production of so insignificant and wretched a being.

Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
The Great Chain of Being