Remarks Upon Alchemy and the Alchemists
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: April 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780766155299
Subjects: Philosophy; General
First sentence: SOME two years since, I printed a small pamphlet on the subject of Alchemy, my object being to throw out an idea with which I was strongly impressed, that the Philosopher's Stone was a mere symbol, and that the Alchemists were not in pursuit of gold, but of wisdom, carefully and conscientiously leaving the latter word undefined.