But spare us thy speeches, and on to thy puppet-show." Adam stared a moment at the king in the surprise that one full of his subject feels when he sees it impossible to make another understand it, sighed, shook his head, and prepared to begin.
"Observe," he said, "that there is no juggling, no deceit.

I will place in this deposit this small lump of brass--would the size of this toy would admit of larger experiment! I will then pray ye to note, as I open door after door, how the metal passes through various changes, all operated by this one agency of vapour.

Heed and attend.

And if the crowning work please thee, think, great king, what such an agency upon the large scale would be to thee; think how it would multiply all arts and lessen all labour; think that thou hast, in this, achieved for a whole people the true philosopher's stone.

Now note!" He placed the rough ore in its receptacle, and suddenly it seemed seized by a vice within, and vanished.