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known things of the immeasurable Cosmos, meet, 

 and are on a level. There is neither larger or 

 smaller there, neither younger or older, neither 

 wiser or more foolish, neither less or more im- 

 portant. For out of it came that by means of 

 which all this that we see and know has come. 

 There, once for all, was uttered that spell of 

 which this huge teeming universe is but the 

 outcome. There Life herself was born, and it 

 may be therefore other powers, greater and more 

 wide-embracing than even Life herself. But of 

 what that spell consists, or what the name of it 

 is, no bird, or beast, or man, or possibly other 

 creature, has hitherto so much as even begun to 

 guess." 



