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observed, Science invariably ends by carry- 
ing the day ;’ if he is giving you ‘a recipe 
for making gold,’ he ends by breaking a lance 
with the seekers for gold. ‘This is true of me,” 
added my visitor, “‘ Vita Ignis corpus Lig- 
num.’ By the way,” said he, “ you tell me you 
are preparing a little work for the Sette of 
‘Odd Volumes.’ Give up this question of 
the ‘Philosopher's Stone’: surely there are 
other themes of ordinary every-day life, of 
far more general interest.” 
(Here I saw a little figure of Cupid had 
pierced my lattice window, and was flying 
across the room with his eyes fixed on me.) 
“What think you of ‘Love,’ and ‘Sen- 
timent’? Are such things known among you 
now?” TI noticed the eyes of the philoso- 
pher fill as he said this, and, standing erect, 
he exclaimed :— 
“‘ Away,” * my dear Brother Alchymist, 
* Words of Paracelsus. See article, *‘ Alchymy,” 
Encyélopedia Britannica, 1879. 
