GEO. MANN RICHARDSON,

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THE ALCHEMICAL ESSENCE

AND THE

CHEMICAL ELEMENT

AN EPISODE IN THE QUEST OF THE UNCHANGING

BY

M. M. PATTISON MUIR

'Nature moves not by the theorie of men, but by their
practice, and surely wit and reason can perform no miracles
unlesse the hands supplie them'

THOMAS VAUGHAN

UNIVERSITY

LONDON

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

AND NEW YORK: 15 EAST 16th STREET

1894

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THIS ESSAY is written in the hope that some of the

men who exercise their wit and reason' in ex

amining the problems of life may help to answer the questions that nature propounds to those of her students who follow the quest of the unchanging.

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