Diamonds and precious stones, a popular account of gems .. (1874)
Dieulafait, Louis, b. 1830, Sanford, Fanchon, tr · New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company · leaf 55
into the Divinity. Thus minerals as well as animals and plants were to these philosophers living beings. 3 34 PRECIOUS STONES. They maintained also, that the world was ananimal reuniting the two principles, active andpassive; an idea that entered fundamentally intonearly all the systems of ancient… … Figs. 20 aiid 21.—Egyptian Figures carved in hard stone. with some brilliancy at the commencement of thepresent era in the writings of philosophers of theschool of Alexandria. In the mediaeval age, whenthe alchemists transported them into the mineralkingdom, they reigned supreme. If we examine, in…
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