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Show Fraudulent Alchemists. Discussing tho work of Roger Bacon, regnrded as the greatest philosopher of the Thirteenth century, Prof. Wll-Unm Wll-Unm Romntuc Newhold of tho University Uni-versity of Peniisyliinln, who has succeeded suc-ceeded In finding n key to this wonderful won-derful book, speaks of numerous references to alchemy. In Bacon's time nlchcmy was considered n science and we luno records of many workers, some of them honest In their beliefs, but many of them were simply impostors im-postors using the desire for gold to ohtnln large sums of money from their credulous victims, tho New York Sun explains. |