[313] “Unseen Universe,” p. 84, et seq.
[314] Ibid., p. 89.
[315] Behold! great scientists of the nineteenth century, corroborating the wisdom of the Scandinavian fable, cited in the preceding chapter. Several thousand years ago, the idea of a bridge between the visible and the invisible universes was allegorized by ignorant “heathen,” in the “Edda-Song of Völuspa,” “The Vision of Vala, the Seeress.” For what is this bridge of Bifrost, the radiant rainbow, which leads the gods to their rendezvous, near the Urdar-fountain, but the same idea as that which is offered to the thoughtful student by the authors of the “Unseen Universe?”
[316] “L’Ami des Sciences,” March 2, 1856, p. 67.
[317] Cooke: “New Chemistry,” p. 113.
[318] Ibid., pp. 110-111.
[319] Ibid., p. 106.
[320] “De Secretis Adeptorum.” Werdenfelt; Philalethes; Van Helmont; Paracelsus.
[321] Youmans: “Chemistry,” p. 169; and W. B. Kemshead, F. R. A. S.: “Inorganic Chemistry.”
[322] “Origin of Metalliferous Deposits.”