Alchemy and Printing.—­Antimony, once celebrated in the laboratories of the alchemists, who hoped to discover in it the philosopher’s stone, is now employed in the casting of types for printing.—­There is much food for reflection in this curious fact in the history of science.  How has this simple substance originated dreams of spell-bound ignorance, and realities of godlike intelligence.  Nay, we are almost persuaded that the hopes of the alchemists were not altogether unfounded—­that antimony is indeed what they hoped to find it—­that the invention of printing was the finding of the philosopher’s stone; and that we are at this moment enjoying ten-fold the advantages which the alchemists anticipated from their secret.—­J.T.

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