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Ch. 2: Historical Survey of Gemstones

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PRECIOUS STONES.
to avert calamity, and to drive away the demons of the air.
The belief indeed came to prevail, that the pre­siding genius of a man's fate might be carried about with him in the shape of a precious stone. This superstition, though to us it appears so absurd, was
quite in accordance with the general views which then prevailed regarding the moral and physical worlds.
"A fact that governs all ancient history," says Hoefer, in his Histoire de la Chimie, "is the close alliance of religion with science. This alliance is one of the distinguishing characteristics of antiquity:
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