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and earth than are dreamt of in your philo- 
sophy”; there are more ways of giving hap- 
piness to mankind than in discovering the 
Philosopher’s Stone. 
Is my meaning Heathen Greek to you 
still ? 
The expression of pain, vexation, and dis- 
appointment on your brow tells me but too 
forcibly your answer. In my despair, then, 
I will define to you this “ Lapis Philoso- 
phicus”; but hereafter I would beg of you 
never to raise the question, or albeit you 
may fail to elicit so truthful an answer as 
that given by the drudge, Face, in the 
famous play before named, as follows :— 
‘©°Tis a STONE and not a STONE; a 
Spirit, a Soul, and a Body: 
Which if you do dissolve it, it is dissolved ; 
If you coagulate, it is coagulated; 
If you make it FLY, it FLYETH.” 
How now? Is it Heathen Greek to you 
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