A Course of Chemistry

Highly and Well-Born,

Highly Commanding Gracious Lords,

I serve the world as best I can, because I cannot yet serve as I wish. Indeed, I would have gladly consecrated the first bloom of my years to the service of God in His church, as they appeared mature enough for such a task in the eyes and ears of my teachers and patrons, and even the local, Highly Reverend Ministry of the Holy Cross original: Creuz-Ministerii; the clerical body associated with the Kreuzkirche in Dresden, responsible for ecclesiastical affairs.

However, Divine Wisdom original: Göttl. Weißheit has seen fit otherwise, and has not yet chosen to accept them—just as the firstfruits of the year were accepted as an offering in His temple in the Old Testament—up to this date.

In the meantime, I shall not be acting wrongly if I come forward with a secondary work original: Nebenwercke; a project or publication produced alongside one's primary professional calling that specifically concerns itself with the well-being of the human body original: Wohlstand des Menschlichen Leibes: since God has not yet deemed me worthy...