[11] Dissertation, ut supra, p. 27.

[12] Hist. Ind. Sc. Book i. chap. i.

[13] Novum Organum, Aph. 75.

[14] Supra, book iii. ch. vii. § 4.

[15] It is hardly needful to remark that nothing is here intended to be said against the possibility at some future period of making gold; by first discovering it to be a compound, and putting together its different elements or ingredients. But this is a totally different idea from that of the seekers of the grand arcanum.

[16] Pharmacologia, pp. 43-5.

[17] Vol. i. chap. 8.

[18] Nov. Org., Aph. 46.

[19] Playfair's Dissertation, sect. 4.

[20] Nov. Org. Renov., p. 61.