Notes On the Margins Being Suggestions of Thought And Enquiry Five Essays
Notes On the Margins Being Suggestions of Thought And Enquiry Five Essays
Clifford Harrison
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Surely some of the very passages I have already quoted in these pages tell us of equally amazing transmutations which can be effected. Air is now made into water ; and really, to the unassisted intelligence, that looks far liker to "magic" than to turn copper into gold. The chemist who says a thing is impossible is a bold man. If we wait awhile we may yet hear that our chemists have found out that the alchemists were not as wrong as has been thought, even in their most fantastic ideas. This con...fession has already been accorded in one or two instances. One of their favourite assertions is that of the existence of a materia prima a prim- ordial essence, from which all things were originally made. I think one of the alchemistic names for this essence was Azoth. Now Professor Huxley (it is always pleasant to cite the adversary) says, in refer- ence to the periodicity of atoms, and the sections and groups they form : "This is a conception with which biologists are very familiar : animal and plant groups constantly appearing as series of parallel modifications of similar yet different primary forms.
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