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Loves Garland.
and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy”; there are more ways of giving happiness to mankind than in discovering the Philosopher’s Stone.
Is my meaning Heathen Greek to you still?
The expression of pain, vexation, and disappointment on your brow tells me but too forcibly your answer. In my despair, then, I will define to you this “Lapis Philosophicus”; 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.”
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 still? J. R. B.
