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Ch. 2: Historical Survey of Gemstones

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PRECIOUS STONES.
They maintained also, that the world was an animal reuniting the two principles, active and passive; an idea that entered fundamentally into nearly all the systems of ancient philosophy.
From India these theories passed into Egypt, whence they were transported to Greece by Plato, Pythagoras, and other philosophers. Confined for centuries to the European orient, they reappeared
with some brilliancy at the commencement of the present era in the writings of philosophers of the school of Alexandria. In the mediaeval age, when the alchemists transported them into the mineral kingdom, they reigned supreme.
If we examine, in connection with these ideas, the rank that was ascribed to precious stones, we shall find that they necessarily acquired a great im­portance. The beauty of their forms and the splen­dour of their colours could not fail to make them
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