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At the Ohio State University (OSU), the Urban Landscape Ecology Project (ULEP) and all of its affiliated faculty and staff have been a source of constant help and inspiration, especially John Cardina who believes weeds are nature too. Susan Clayton at College of Wooster has been a terrific partner in this research, as has ULEP s guiding spirit, Parwinder Grewal. 

Philalethes says, in A Brief Guide to the Celestial Ruby. "The Philosopher s Stone is a certain heavenly, spiritual, penetrative, and fixed substance, which brings all metals to the perfection of gold or silver (according to the quality of the Medicine), and that by natural methods, which yet in their effects transcend Nature.. . Know then that it is called a stone, not because it is like a stone, but only because, by virtue of its fixed nature, it resists the action of fire as successfully as any stone. In species it is gold, more pure than the purest it is fixed and incombustible like a stone, but its appearance is that of very fine powder, impalpable to the touch, sweet to the taste, fragrant to the smell, in potency a most penetrative spirit, apparently dry and yet unctuous, and easily capable of tinging a plate of metal. If we say that its nature is spiritual, it would be no more than the truth if we described it as corporeal, the expression would be equally correct."... 

In proof of the injurious influence of the excise duties on this and other branches of manufacture, it may be stated that the procass for its production has undergone little or no alteration for the lost two or three centuries. Now, however, that the manufacturer is not restricted as to the choice of materials, it remains only for the chemist to supply other and cheaper ones, and to guide the practical man as to the best method of combination and, doubtless, diligent inquiry will reward those who enter upon the subject in a truly scientific spirit. 

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