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The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry

CHAPTER IX
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You after me, not I after you.

You of Paris, you of Montpellier, you of Swabia, of Meissen and Vienna; you who come from the countries along the Danube and the Rhine; and you, too, from the Islands of the Ocean.

Follow me.

It is not for me to follow you, for mine is the monarchy." But the work was too arduous, the struggle too unequal.

"With few appliances, with no accurate knowledge, with no help from the work of others, without polished and sharpened weapons, and without the skill that comes from long handling of instruments of precision, what could Paracelsus effect in his struggle to wrest her secrets from nature?
Of necessity, he grew weary of the task, and tried to construct a universe which should be simpler than that most complex order which refused to yield to his analysis." And so he came back to the universe which man constructs for himself, and exclaimed-- "Each man has ...


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