Man Cannot Influence In This

There Is Something Sublime About Its Aloofness From And Its Indifference To Its External Environment.

Some Of The Beliefs And Legends Bequethed To Us By Antquity Are So Universally And Firmly Established That We Have Become Accustomed To Consider Them As Being Almost As Ancient As Humanity Itself. Nevertheless We Are Tempted To Inquire How Far The Fact That Some Of These Beliefs And Legends Have So Many Features In Common Is Due To Chance, And Wether The Similarity Between Them May Not Point To The Exestience Of An Ancient, Totally Unknown And Unsuspected Civilization Of Which All Other Traces Have Disappeared.

It Is Curious To Reflect, For Example, Upon The Remarkable Legend Of The Philosopher's Stone, One Of The Oldest And Most Universal Beliefs, The Origin Of Which, However Far Back We Penetrate Into The Records Of The Past, We Do Not Probably Trace Its Real Source.

Man Cannot Influence In This Respect The Atomic Forces Of Nature.

Physical Science Enjoys The Distinction Of Being The Most Fundamental Of The Experimental Sciences, And Its Laws Are Obeyed Universally, So Far As Is Known, Not Merely By Inanimate Things, But Also By Living Organisms, In Their Minutest Parts, As Single Individuals, And Also As Whole Communities. It Results From This That, However Complicated A Series Of Phenomena May Be And However Many Other Sciences May Enter Into Its Complete Presentation, The Purely Physical Aspect, Or The Application Of The Known Laws Of Matter And Energy, Can Always Be Legitimately Separated From The Other Aspects.