Item - The Philosopher's Stone

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Online Full Text:	Stanford Digital Repository
Series:	New York Weekly — v. 36 no. 37 — page 4
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XXXVI, no. 37, July 25, 1881 (Issue)
Author:	Beauchamp, Lou J. (Lou Jenks), 1851-1920
Date:	July 25, 1881
First Sentence:	Ages and ages ago, before the light that radiates from the printing press had lit up the dark ways of ignorance, and when men were yet groping, figuratively speaking, upon their hands and knees in search of something, they knew not what, to ennoble them, there was scattered broadcast a tale that there existed "somewhere" upon the earth, or in the waters, a stone- a pebble- a mere atom of the great mass of creation, and yet containing within itself virtues making it more powerful than all else that came out of chaos at the invocation of the Great First cause.