Spagyric Anatomy of Mercury

and with so many and such great portents of falsities and enormous absurdities brought forth into the public view, they foully reveal their own remarkable stupidity, often joined with extreme apaideusia lack of education/ignorance and malice, and expose themselves to the laughter of others.
Among the other metals or minerals, however, which were produced by Nature the generator for the use of this life and bountifully given to us, that quicksilver or MERCURY certainly does not occupy the last place of dignity. Instead, it must be preferred to many others, both by the nobility and excellence of the substance it has received, and by the multiplicity of the utility which it provides. It is not necessary to laboriously prove this now, since it has long been sufficiently agreed upon among all who are not only Wise Masters of the Chemical art, but also excellent craftsmen of metallic things, to the point that it is so acknowledged among them that anyone who would rashly wish to deny it might deservedly be seen as wishing to deny the blackness of an Ethiopian or the whiteness of Snow. For out of MERCURY, as the immediate material cause, with another Principle also concurring, namely