Victor Hugo. Notre Dame Cathedral (№ 7076)

Would you object to the following assertions of this science [of alchemy]: that the ice had lain a thousand years in the bowels of the earth, into the mountain crystal; lead is the progenitor of all metals, because gold is not a metal, gold is light; what lead you need only four periods of two hundred years each to sledovatelno to turn into red arsenic, from red arsenic to tin, from tin to silver?