Show Admit Possibility of 01 Metal Transmutation Nothing better could Illustrate the mew c conceptions of matter now existing exist exist- f i ing In scientific circles than the tho tone I t in which the orthodox physicists comment comment com com- ment meat on the report from Germany of ot the turning of ot mercury Into gold A Afew few V years ago no real scientist would i have bave had the patience to dignify such claims even to the extent tent of denying them says the New v York Times The Tile difference between the elements then a was as held to be essential and un un- un- un changeable At present there Is more than doubt If f any essential difference separates any so-called so element from any of the others and to claims of ot transmutation the answer is Not Impossible Impossible Im possible I IThe The old assumptions as ns to the indestructibility Indestructibility Inde inde- of matter and the conservation conservation conservation con con- of energy energy they they too have bave fallen alien upon evil days and the respect that used to be theirs has waned to next to nothing Yet science need not c confess fallibility since It never asserted asserted asserted as as- Infallibility The old hypotheses ses fitted all nU of ot the known facts of ot their day and oDd they met the pragmatic test they test they worked It was said of Herbert Spencer that lets his Idea den of ot a tragedy was waa the overthrowing overthrowing over over- throwing of a beautiful hypothesis by byn n ugly fact In these days no horror at all and not even disquietude Is caused by such happenings |