A Strange Story — volume 08
A Strange Story — volume 08
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Possibly, in the attempts at that transmutation ofmetals, which I think your own great chemist, Sir Humphry Davy, allowedmight be possible, but held not to be worth the cost of theprocess, --possibly, in those attempts, some scanty grains of thissubstance were found by the alchemists, in the crucible, with grains ofthe metal as niggardly yielded by pitiful mimicry of Nature's stupendouslaboratory; and from such grains enough of the essence might, perhaps, have been drawn forth, to add a few yea...rs of existence to some feeblegraybeard, --granting, what rests on no proofs, that some of the alchemistsreached an age rarely given to man. But it is not in the miserlycrucible, it is in the matrix of Nature herself, that we must seek inprolific abundance Nature's grand principle, --life. As the loadstone isrife with the magnetic virtue, as amber contains the electric, so in thissubstance, to which we yet want a name, is found the bright life-givingfluid. In the old goldmines of Asia and Europe the substance exists, butcan rarely be met with.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Possibly, in the attempts at that transmutation ofmetals, which I think your own great chemist, Sir Humphry Davy, allowedmight be possible, but held not to be worth the cost of theprocess, --possibly, in those attempts, some scanty grains of thissubstance were found by the alchemists, in the crucible, with grains ofthe metal as niggardly yielded by pitiful mimicry of Nature's stupendouslaboratory; and from such grains enough of the essence might, perhaps, have been drawn forth, to add a few yea...rs of existence to some feeblegraybeard, --granting, what rests on no proofs, that some of the alchemistsreached an age rarely given to man. But it is not in the miserlycrucible, it is in the matrix of Nature herself, that we must seek inprolific abundance Nature's grand principle, --life. As the loadstone isrife with the magnetic virtue, as amber contains the electric, so in thissubstance, to which we yet want a name, is found the bright life-givingfluid. In the old goldmines of Asia and Europe the substance exists, butcan rarely be met with.
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