But if this is so, that nature which is the most perfect and the most comprehensive of all natures, cannot fall short of the skill of art Now all arts do the inferior things for the sake of the superior; therefore the universal nature does so too.
Continuing his philosophical argument, this passage deduces that universal nature, being the most perfect, must also operate with a purpose, like art.
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