DEUT662 The Jewish people have been taught to consider themselves sons of God (this verse), and to extend Divine sonship to men of all creeds and races. This doctrine has carried the most far-reaching consequences. As a child of God, man may not be degraded to a mere cog of either the industrial or the political order. He forms a center of human value and is an end in himself. The worth of the individual is fundamental to the democratic spirit of Judaism. Every person, irrespective of the accident of birth or station, is regarded as divinely endowed, as the possessor of a soul. Says R. Elazar: "The whole world was created only for the sake of man." R. Abba b. Kahana adds: "Man outweighs the whole world." Ber. 6b