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for example, a statute was in force seekers after the philosopher's stone from to 1689. Persecution brought about the for of secret societies, such as the Rosicrucians, induced those engaged in such pursuits to up their statements in a jargon still more if po ible, than that used by their Para cels us (1498-1541, q.v.) the mad stands on the border line between visions of past and the progre ive insigh{ of the present. making any very definite scientific advance, hit by intuition on certain principles that have been verified, and he drew inguirers from the and usele pursuit of gold into the more ambition to relieve human suffering. He became the father of Van Helmont and of and ee we might also say, of Boyle Bernard Pali y, whilst Francis Bacon may be as one of his family though not by direct From them the torch of true knowledge handed down to Priest ley, Lavoisier and Scheele, so on to the great chemical masters of the 18th the 19th centuries, As a matter of fact, we inherited little from the alchemists save their ) terminology, such potash, cipitate, principled born to sprang lost educated and of his he ever, actions, over his skill immense was Argos, was was Lamachus. (415 in Herma.” to helped into then A then i an trusting sought A then i ans nid Lace demon i ans, and Samos, and He his sonnese. tam i, shelter and “house, clear. island lencia, Arabs. ducts. and betrayed against purification and He Achelous; his subsequently Alomzon. which still meets us at every turn in words as alcohol, alkali, amalgam, arsenic, laudanum, crucible, matter, affinity, pre and distillation.