I have to think of the Creative Energy as immanent in all matter, and the final source of all the transformations and transmutations we see in the organic and the inorganic worlds.
Now this principle of equivalency is found to govern the transmutations of all forms of energy.
All these nine transmutations are devoid of a single sure connecting link, when we would expect millions in every case.
The number of those who have believed in transmutationsis prodigious, and the number of cheats has been in proportion to that of the credulous.
At the best they are only passing through some of the earlier forms of that series of transmutations to which the devout Mohammedan in the above quotation alludes.
They travelled about the Continent for several years, sponging upon credulous rich men, and now and then performing successfultransmutations by the aid of double-bottomed crucibles and the like.
One Solomon de Blauenstein was the first to grapple with him, and attempted to convict him of wilful misrepresentation, by recalling to his memory the transmutations by Sendivogius, before the Emperor Frederic III.
Instances were not rare, in which they generously abandoned all the profits of their transmutations - even the honour of the discovery!
We are surrounded in this world by processes and transmutations so amazing that were they not taking place around us hourly they would be scouted as impossible imaginings.
And this, in its simplest terms, is a parable of the infinitely complex and amazing transmutations of married love.
Noisome scents and the burning of all unhallowed and odious things were resorted to.
For this mitigated view of such dark and mysterious proceedings the ancients were in a great degree indebted to their polytheism.
The complexity of the transmutations of energy and ultimate unknowableness and mystery of their cause are no less in the case of a drop of water or a particle of dirt than in that of a living cell.
And our North British Reviewer makes a similar comment: "The believer who is at liberty to invent any imaginary circumstances, will very generally be able to conceive some series of transmutations answering his wants.
There is scarcely a term in popular science, which has not gone through various transmutations of this sort.
One Solomon de Blauenstein was the first to grapple with him, and attempted to convict him of wilful misrepresentation, by recalling to his memory the transmutations by Sendivogius, before the Emperor Frederick III.
On the contrary, the allegedtransmutations always occurred in obscure places, and in the presence of people who, one has reason to believe, were both hysterical and imaginative, and therefore predisposed to see wonders.
In the second place, still deeper will be this impression, when we recollect that similar transmutations have already been experienced by the earth with an improvement of its condition.
How idle, then, to suppose that the laws of hybridity will account for such radical and entire transmutations as this hypothesis supposes!
We know not whether those worlds are all inhabited, but we have evidence that all are undergoing the transmutations of chemistry; not on their surface merely, but in their deep interior.
Let us notice some of the wonderful workings andtransmutations in nature on which the advocates of pantheism rely.
These are all electric transmutationsby means of respiration, by digestion and assimilation of food, whereby a great variety of substance is converted into blood and bone, tissue and muscle, and all the functions of life preserved.
Man may have passed the successive changes and transmutations of form that the shifting vibratory rates of the planet responded to in the long period of world building.
In all the operations of chemical transmutations no material is lost and no power wasted, and, by the law of the conservation and correlation of force, both energy and material must exist as correlatives.
Yet seeming Transmutations of Colours may be made, where there is any mixture of divers sorts of Rays.
Thomas Norton, the author of The Ordinal of Alchemy, writing in the 15th century, says the worker in transmutations is often tempted to be in a hurry, or to despair, and he is often deceived.
True, it is and must be from and by phenomena only that I infer and measure the transmutations of Energy, but the transmutations measured are operations of the real thing-in-itself postulated by Science.
The transmutations of the real Energy of the world beyond my organism never enter my Consciousness.
What they required was a datum of configuration, a phenomenal basis upon which their calculations could proceed and in terms of which, as a point of origin, their statement of transmutations was made.
Surely it is of primary importance to realise the effect upon our conceptions of Space and Extension of the doctrine of the transmutations of Energy.
Thus by the same process of reasoning by which I am led to believe that my own Presentment consists in the energetic transmutations proceeding in my organism, I explain the universality of the experience of all intelligent agents.
No more shall we Upon his viler metal test our purest pure, And see him transmutations three endure!
These advances in knowledge all point to the possibility of effecting transmutations at will, but so far attempts to achieve this, as I have already indicated, cannot be regarded as altogether satisfactory.
But at the same time we must not assume that, because we know not the method now, real transmutations have never taken place.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "transmutations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
