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the perceptions exclude others that are 

 equally to be respected. Is not this a 

 notion quite clear, irresistible, absolutely 

 impossible to escape from, when one 

 mentions it : If the First Cause surren- 

 dered the faculty of causation immedi- 

 ately after the original creative act, there 

 ceased to be an Omnipresent Cause at all, 

 and God created the world only to leave 

 it godless ? Thus does it seem that 

 Calvinist and Evolutionist are head- 

 masters in schools of dogmatic Atheism, 

 one quite as questionable as the other ; 

 and that . . . 



At the hospitable place where I was 

 staying, when any one is on the hill or 

 far out upon the lake, it is a horn, instead 

 of a gong, that proclaims the approach 

 of a meal. A blast rang through the 

 valley, and shrilled off echoing in the 

 corries. On rising to go down, I saw 

 that a catspaw breeze was creeping 

 over the water, and that the pleasant 

 mysteries of the lake must for a time 

 remain unsolved. 



