I was very interested in Donne’s description of the size of the man compared to the size of the world in “Meditation 4.” Interestingly, he claims that the “pieces of man” when stretched out are much greater than the world. The complexity, he argues, of humans is so great. Why then would the sum of all humans be so much less significant than the complexity of one individual human? It would seem that when added together, the complexities and interactions between humans would be greater than those of any one individual. To Donne, when the world is seen as a collection of humans, something about the greatness of the individual is lost. What is that something? Why is the world so small compared to the individual?