They made figures of brass, and tried to induce souls to indwell them. In some accounts we read that they succeeded; Friar Bacon was credited with one such Homunculus; so was Albertus Magnus, and, I think, Paracelsus. "He had, at least, a devil in his long sword 'which taught him all the cunning pranks of past and future mountebanks,
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- Author's profession: Critic, Philosopher
- Nationality: english
- Born: October 12, 1875
- Died: December 1, 1947
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