Chemical-Medical Miracles and Mysteries

...are miserably wallowing in the filth of barbarism original: "barbariae coeno," a vivid metaphor for intellectual and cultural decay. Today, what nation is more barbaric than the Egyptians and the Greeks? Yet formerly, which were more cultivated and polished? Among the Italians, who were once more learned or more warlike? Today, the Germans and their northern neighbors seize the palm seize the palm: an idiom for taking the prize or being the most excellent, referring to the palm branch awarded to victors in antiquity in almost all things.

And unless we desire by every prayer and means to avoid the marks of ingratitude, it is certainly to be feared that God, that supreme author of the arts and sciences, might afflict us with a similar punishment The author warns that intellectual gifts are a divine favor that can be revoked if a nation becomes ungrateful or stagnant. And what has just been declared concerning the arts in general can be said most especially of the chemical chemical: in this context, "chymicis" encompasses both alchemy and chemistry, particularly the search for the "secrets of nature" and medical secrets of nature. For in this modern age, these arts flourish and thrive toward the frozen North original: "Arcton," referring to the constellation of the Great Bear (Ursa Major), a standard poetic term for the northern regions; while under the burning heat of the sun, they lie dormant and sluggish. To this matter, there can be witnesses...

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