Alchemists Old and New
186 THE COMMONWEAL June 23, 1926 a Polish province, and the remaining portion within...
...Now the ambition of Lithuanian to work to solve the problem, and placed the investigations Catholics has been realized...
...another, Dr...
...Bishop -even after several distillations in vacuo...
...Nevertheless, what has been shown is and secondly, how to transmute base metals into gold...
...The organiza- that of mercury...
...Rainys, had been a member of the that the mercury used by Miethe could not have been quite pure...
...Now not make gold any cheaper, for the infinitesimal amounts prosubstantial forms can be changed, as in ordinary chemical trans- duced will have been brought into existence at an expense imformations, and if this is so, why should it not be true of mensely beyond their own value...
...artificial diamonds over again...
...There is something prophetic in which they were arranging in the hands of Professor Sheldon, the fact that this year, on Resurrection Day, the Lithuanian of the physics department of New York University, and his people saw the birth of a new Church province within their assistant, Mr...
...The Berlin men Karevicius has been appointed titular archbishop...
...When, if ever, it is, it will matter and differed because of their substantial forms...
...Thus the work of the Berlin observers two things-first of all, how to prepare the elixir of life...
...This experiment, if confirmed, shows that what was tion...
...Estey...
...a replica of that which he had employed, which was made for them in Germany...
...That idea was that all things were composed of the same prime feat may yet be accomplished...
...Of the three newly consecrated Lithuanian bishops, one, Next to attack the problem was the Chemical Institute of the Monsignor Stangaitis, had been president of the Lithuanian Berlin University, the experts at which came to the conclusion parliament...
...It will be the story of metals...
...186 THE COMMONWEAL June 23, 1926 a Polish province, and the remaining portion within Lithuania Shortly after this, two chemists, Smits and Karsen, working itself...
...has been corroborated...
...The Then came the radio-activity discoveries which showed that there was no such difference between the elements as had been supposed, but that what distinguished one from another was BENEDICTINES the number of units of negative electricity-electrons, and of positive electricity-protons, which the atom of each contained...
...In fact, from that time on, but little was heard of them...
...By EDWARD SCHNEIDER Such being the case, it became clear that, theoretically, by the Translated by JOHAN LILJENCRANTS abstraction or addition of one electron or proton, one element might be turned into another, and thus the road was clear .for "The book should get a wide reading, because besides being important it is one of those rare treatments of a religious a new alchemy-for the attempt to transmute one metal into theme which seem to have been done sacrificially by an artist another...
...The results of their investigations showed that this gold-free mercury did not, in fact, transmute into ALCHEMISTS OLD AND NEW gold, nor show any tendency in that direction, the assumption being that the mercury used by Miethe could not have been T HE alchemists of mediaeval days were bent on finding out quite free from gold...
...On Easter Sunday of this year Pope Pius XI announced in Amsterdam, declared that they had been able to split up the formation of a distinct Lithuanian province with one lead into two other elements-a much more difficult problem, archbishopric at Kaunas and four bishoprics, at Telsei, Pane- since the vaporization of lead requires a far greater heat than vezys, Kasedoriai and Vilkaviskis respectively...
...They that the method employed has not yet turned mercury into worked on true philosophical principles, for the basis of their gold-not that mercury cannot be turned into gold...
...The Commoncelebrated Technical School at Charlottenburg in Germany, weal...
...to establish a province in Lithuania, an effort which did not The Scientific American, with commendable spirit, then set meet with continuing success...
...Were this true, what GREENBERG, Publisher must have happened was either the addition of another electron 112 Bast 19th Street New York City or the removal of a proton from the atom of mercury...
...but it does not titular archbishop and appointed him Papal Nuncio to show that Miethe was right in saying that he had made gold Lithuania...
...From it they receive new strength and courage to obtained from a gold-free source, and in the first instance, used resist the adverse influences by which they are beset, greater a lamp of their own construction which they considered to determination to remain independent as a nation and faithful be an improvement on that of Miethe, but later resorted to as a people to the Catholic Church...
...declared that he had actually been able to make gold out of Price, $2.00 quicksilver or mercury by the action of an intense electric arc on the metal in a quartz receptacle...
...cabinet with the portfolio of Foreign Minister...
...Yet after ten hours' subjection to the arc, tion of the new province was entrusted by the Holy Father they declared that the lead spectrum disappeared and was to the Nuncio, Archbishop Matulevicius, formerly bishop of replaced by those of mercury and of thallium---a very rare Vilna, which part of Lithuania is now under Polish occupa- metal...
...Bishop Skvireckas is the newly appointed to- rid mercury infected with gold from all the latter impurity metropolitan of Lithuania and Archbishop of Kaunas...
...These investigators employed mercury borders...
...out of mercury...
...distilled their mercury three times, but did not obtain results It was in 1250 that Grand Duke Mindeugas endeavored corroborating Miethe...
...while the third, It is difficult, but possible, to procure mercury from a perfectly Monsignor Paltarokas, is a former vice-rector of the Priests' gold-free source, and it seems to be practically impossible Seminary at Kaunas...
...Not long ago, Professor Adolphe Miethe, of the fully aware of the beauty given into his hand...
...Bishop Matulevicius was caused to resign his see at theoretically possible-namely, the breaking up of one element Vilna in 1925, following upon which the Pope created him into others-has practically been accomplished...
...When Boyle, in 1661, published his Skyptical Chymist, and appeared to show that all the so-called elements were "ab initio," and unalterably different, it seemed as though an end had been put to the labors of the alchemists...
Vol. 4 • June 1926 • No. 7
