For it is clear that if all God's ideas were in every sense equal, He could not distinguish among His works, since He sees His creatures only in what in Him represents them, and if the idea of a watch that shows, besides the hour, all the different motions of the planets were not more perfect than the idea of a watch that shows only the hour, or than the idea of a circle or of a square, then a watch would not be more perfect than a circle.