The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 13

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Excerpt from The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 13: July to December, 1921 Chymists write thus darkly, not because they think their notions too precious to be explained, but because they fear that if they were explained, men would discern, that they are far from being precious. And, indeed, I fear that the chief reason why chymists have written so obscurely of their three principles, may be, that not having clear and distinct notions of them themselves, they cannot write otherwise than confusedly of what they but confusedly apprehend, not to say that divers of them, being conscious to the invalidity of their doctrine, might well enough discerne that they could scarce keep themselves from being confuted, but by keeping themselves from being clearly understood If judicious men, skilled in chymical afiairs, shall agree to write clearly and plainly of them, and thereby keep men from being stunned, as it were, or imposed upon by dark and empty words, it is to be hoped, that these (other) men finding, that they can no longer write impertinently and absurdly, without being laughed at for doing so, will be reduced either to write nothing, or books, that may teach us some thing, and not rob men, as formerly, of invaluable time, and so ceasing to trouble the world with riddles or impertinencies, we shall either by their books receive an advantage, or by their silence escape an inconvenience. And again, ' showing that he had no great opinion of their methods. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.