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It also yielded alkahest, the universal solvent—an agent that could eat through any substance in the world: glass, stone, metal, even diamond.

In all the dreams of the mediæval philosophy—in the philosopher’s stone and the stone philosophic, in the universal alkahest, in the magical ‘elixir vitæ’—Dr. Fludd was a serious believer.

She must bring down the spirit of the sun and blend it with her own—for wheat partakes of the alkahest.

We have discovered the political alkahest or universal solvent of the alchemists, and with it we reduce at once the national characteristics of foreigners into our well-known American compound.

This, with tree-planting and culture, would double, for the soil seemed to contain the miraculous properties of alkahest.