alchimy

Updated: May 5, 2025

Above all, every relation must be considered as suspicious, which depends in any degree upon religion, as the prodigies of Livy: And no less so, every thing that is to be found in the writers of natural magic or alchimy, or such authors, who seem, all of them, to have an unconquerable appetite for falsehood and fable . Nov. Org. lib. ii. aph. 29.

David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding