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I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the worl
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"I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose"

- William Temple

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