Show a or Admit Possibility of Metal 1 lal T Transmutation Nothing g better could Illustrate the new conceptions of ot matter now existing existing exist exist- ing ing- ingIn In scientific circles than the tho tone In hh which the orthodox physicists comment comment com cum ment meat on the report from Germany of th the ilie turning of or mercury Into gold A Afew Afew Afew few years cars ago no real ical scientist would have hi had the patience to dignify such claims even evell to the e extent tent of at denying them says the New York 1011 Times difference between the elements then was held beld to he be essential and un un- un changeable At present there Is more than doubt If any ess essential difference separates any so-called so element from any of the others and to claims of ot transmutation the tho answer Is Not Impossible impossible Im possible I IThe The old assumptions as s to the indestructibility Indestructibility Inde Inde- of matter and the conservation conservation con con- of or energy energy they they too have fallen upon evil days and t the the respect that used to be theirs has waned to next to nothing Yet science need not confess fa fallibility III bill since it ty never never- asserted asserted as as- Infallibility The Tile old hypotheses ses fitted all ull of the known facts of ot their day and they met the pragmatic lest they test they worked ed It was said of ot Herbert erbert Spencer that thatIs his Is Idea of a n tragedy was the overthrowing overthrowing overthrowing over over- throwing of or a beautiful hypothesis by byan byan bynn nn an an ugly fact In these da days s no horror at nil all and not even en disquietude is caused by such happenings |