Diamonds and precious stones, a popular account of gems .. (1874)
Dieulafait, Louis, b. 1830, Sanford, Fanchon, tr · New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company · leaf 53
their importancerested on very different grounds. They attributedto these peerless little objects the most extraordi-nary gifts; they ascribed to them a spiritual as wellas material potency—a power alike to cure diseases, 32 PRECIOUS STONES. to avert calamity, and to drive away the demons ofthe… … Fig. 19—Egyptian Scarabseus cut in hard stone. quite in accordance with the general views whichthen prevailed regarding the moral and physicalworlds. A fact that governs all ancient history, saysHoefer, in his Histoire de la Chimie, is the closealliance of religion with science. This alliance isone…
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