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Finally, that transcendental alchemy—the superinducement of new forms on matter—which Bacon declares to be the supreme aim of science, has been wholly ignored by those who have created the physical knowledge of the present day.

From The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century by Huxley, Thomas Henry