A GARDEN DIARY 241 
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.” 
