[749] “Revue des Deux Mondes,” p. 414, 1858.
[750] “Conservation of Energy,” p. 140.
[751] Eugenius Philalethes.
[752] “Book of Ser Marco Polo,” vol. i., p. 215.
[753] See “Sage’s Dictionnaire des Tissus,” vol. ii., pp. 1-12.
[754] “Book of Ser Marco Polo,” vol. i., p. 230.
[755] “Alchemy, or the Hermetic Philosophy,” p. 25.
[756] See Plutarch: “Symposiacs,” viii. 2. “Diogenianas began and said: ‘Let us admit Plato to the conference and inquire upon what account he says—supposing it to be his sentence—that God always plays the geometer.‘ I said: ‘This sentence was not plainly set down in any of his books; yet there are good arguments that it is his, and it is very much like his expression.’ Tyndares presently subjoined: ‘He praises geometry as a science that takes off men from sensible objects, and makes them apply themselves to the intelligible and Eternal Nature—the contemplation of which is the end of philosophy, as a view of the mysteries of initiation into holy rites.’”
[757] Prof. Ed. L. Youmans: “Descriptive Chemistry.”
[758] In ancient nations the Deity was a trine supplemented by a goddess—the arba-Ih, or fourfold God.