dominancy

Updated: May 24, 2025

Alchemy was a part of the plan of nature produced by this method. The extraordinary dominancy of such a scheme is testified to by the continued belief in alchemy, although the one experiment, which seems to us to be the crucial experiment of the system, was never accomplished.

M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir - The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry