This diamond was to be to the machine what the soul is to the body,--a glorious, all-pervading, mysterious principle of activity and life.

Such were the dreams that obscured the cradle of infant science! And Adam, with all his reasoning powers, big lore in the hard truths of mathematics, was but one of the giant children of the dawn.
The magnificent phrases and solemn promises of the mystic Germans got firm hold of his fancy.

Night and day, waking or sleeping, the diamond, basking in the silence of the full moon, sparkled before his eyes.
Meanwhile all was at a stand.

In the very last steps of his discovery he was arrested.

Then suddenly looking round for vulgar moneys to purchase the precious gem, and the materials for the soluble elixir, he saw that MONEY had been at work around him,--that he had been sleeping softly and faring sumptuously.