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I am the discoverer of the great law of the electrical transposition of the metals, and I am the first to demonstrate protyle, so that, I think, Robert, if all my schemes in other directions come to nothing, my name is at least likely to live in the chemical world. "There is not very much more for me to tell you.
"It would reduce an organic substance to protyle instantly. It is well to understand the mechanism thoroughly, for any mistake might be a grave matter for the operator. You are dealing with gigantic forces. But you perceive that the lead is already beginning to turn."
Then, finally, after a hundred transformations, it disintegrated before his eyes, and lay as a little mound of fluffy grey dust upon the glass table. "And this is protyle," said Haw, passing his fingers through it. "The chemist of the future may resolve it into further constituents, but to me it is the Ultima Thule."
This Earth is, in one sense, the Protyle for which the most advanced of our modern Chemists are searching as the One Mother Element. The idea of the Spirit of God moving on the Waters is a very beautiful one, and we find it worked out in much detail in the Hindû scriptures.
Like a man in a dream he wandered about, marvelling at the universal destruction. A large broad-headed hammer lay upon the ground, and with this Haw had apparently set himself to destroy all his apparatus, having first used his electrical machines to reduce to protyle all the stock of gold which he had accumulated.
Prescott, then, believes that the elements are merely progressive variations of an original substance or base called 'protyle, from which everything is derived. But this fellow Prescott goes much further than any of the former theorists. He does not stop with matter.
Sooner or later it will have dissolved into the 'formless mist' of protyle and 'the hour hand of eternity will have completed one revolution. The 'dissipation of energy' has then found its correlative in the 'dissolution of Matter." Petersburg."
It turned to a greyish fine powder, which powder gave no further results, however much I might treat it with electricity. And that powder is the base of all things; it is the mother of all the elements; it is, in short, the substance whose existence has been recently surmised by a leading chemist, and which has been christened protyle by him.
Sir Norman Lockyer interprets the observed phenomena as indicating the successive combinations, in varying proportions, of a very few original ingredients; but no definite sign of their existence is perceptible; "protyle" seems likely long to evade recognition; and the only intelligible underlying principle for the reasonings employed that of "one line, one element" implies a throng beyond counting of formative material units.
Prescott, then, believes that the elements are merely progressive variations of an original substance or base called 'protyle, from which everything is derived. But this fellow Prescott goes much further than any of the former theorists. He does not stop with matter.
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