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will to suffering humanity all the reme- 

 dies which I have extracted from the 

 bowels of the earth. The sublimed 

 Antimony, called flowers of Antimony, 

 is like the springs which well forth on 

 high mountains. Water is found both 

 by digging in the deep places of the 

 earth, and it rushes forth with great 

 force on the summits of high mountains. 

 How is this most remarkable fact to be 

 explained ? I believe that the womb of 

 waters in the earth is more copiously 

 stored in some places than in others, so 

 that while you have to dig for water in 

 certain districts, in others, owing no 

 doubt to sidereal influences, it is drawn 

 upward with great force to the snowy 

 summits of the Alps, and to the pin- 

 nacles of the Tower of Babylon.* If 

 any foolish person should read these 



* This parable is so clear to those from whose eyes the 

 cataract has been removed, that to explain it would be like 

 lighting a candle at noonday. Those who do not under- 

 stand it should ponder it again and again, and let that which 

 they read to-day explain the difficulties of yesterday, and the 

 studies of to morrow throw light on the uncertainties of to- 

 day. 



