Life of the Universe as Conceived by Man, From the Earliest Ages, to the Present Time e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Haeckel possibly went too far with this state ment. The modern chemist need not know all the phantasms of the alchemists. But nobody will question that the study of the views and reasoning of past ages sheds a remarkable light on the views of our own age.