1 In this sense Ruskin's description of the working of the spirit in the plant as one that 'catches from chaos water, etc., etc., and fastens them into a given form' points to magical action.
2 For Van Helmont, owing to the Flemish pronunciation of the letter G, the two words sounded more alike than their spelling suggests.
3 In a later chapter we shall have opportunity to determine what distinguishes Air from Fire, on the one hand, and Water from Earth on the other.
4 It is this apparent uni-polarity of gravity which has given Professor Einstein so much trouble in his endeavour to create a purely gravitational world-picture with bipolar electricity and magnetism fitting into it mathematically.
5 See the 'Bishop Barnes' controversy of recent date.
6 To the same category belong the mighty thunderstorms which in some parts of the world are known to occur in conjunction with earthquakes.
7 See Goethe's Conversations with Eckermann (translated by J. Oxenford), 13th November, 1823.
CHAPTER X
The Fourth State of Matter