For their appearance among theosophists, see Eliphas Levi, Histoire de la Magie, especially the final chapters.

For opposition to Boyle and chemistry studies at Oxford in the latter half of the seventeenth century, see the address of Prof.Dixon, F.R.

S., before the British Association, 1894.

For the recent progress of chemistry, and opposition to its earlier development at Oxford, see Lord Salisbury's address as President of the British Association, in 1894.

For the Protestant survival of the mediaeval assertion that the universe was created out of nothing, see the Westminster Catechism, question 15.
In our own time some attempt has been made to renew this war against the physical sciences.