LAKE AND STREAM 231 



Did the First Cause yield up the power 

 of causation when the whirl of the con- 

 stellations was set going ? Calvinist and 

 Evolutionist assume so ; but, somehow, 

 one doesn't quite like the tone of either. 

 They take so much for granted that 

 their dogmas should be small, and even 

 then should have less of the last-word air 

 than they habitually carry. If the First 

 Cause did not surrender the faculty of 

 causation ? If it be retained to this day ? 

 That might account for the fairy snow- 

 storm. It was just as wonderful a thing 

 as the earliest appearance of any species 

 of animal can possibly have been. Out of 

 the dust was man made ; out of moisture 

 and air, the snow. Man reproduces the 

 species, and the snowflakes don't : one 

 is a specific creation once for all ; and 

 the other are a special creation, con- 

 stantly in repetition by forces outside 

 itself. That is a difference, certainly ; 

 but is it as wide as it seems ? May not 

 the coming of each new human creature 

 be in a sense just as special an act as that 



