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The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
·
M. M. Pattison Muir
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Magic
is
an
attempt,
by
thinking
and
speculating
about
what
we
consider
must
be
the
order
of
nature,
to
discover
some
means
of
penetrating
into
the
secret
life
of
natural
things,
of
realising
the
hidden
powers
and
virtues
of
things,
grasping
the
concealed
thread
of
unity
which
is
supposed
to
run
through
all
phenomena
however
seemingly
diverse,
entering
into
sympathy
with
the
supposed
inner
oneness
of
life,
death,
the
present,
past,
and
future.
Magic
grows,
and
gathers
strength,
when
men
are
sure
their
theory
of
the
universe
must
be
the
one
true
theory,
and
they
see
only
through
the
glasses
which
their
theory
supplies.
"He
who
knows
himself
thoroughly
knows
God
and
all
the
mysteries
of
His
nature,"
says
a
modern
writer
on
magic.
That
saying
expresses
the
fundamental
hypothesis,
and
the
method,
of
all
systems
of
magic
and
mysticism.
Of
such
systems,
alchemy
was
one.
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