Also another setting forth the miseries of a successful alchemist.

The Algonkin Indians have a legend of a man who came to grief and death through his power of making all girls love him.

But the magic of which I speak is of a far more subtle and deeply refined nature, and those who possess it are alone in life, save when by some rare chance they meet their kind.
Those who are deeply and mysteriously interested in any pursuit for which the great multitude of all-alike people have no sympathy, who have peculiar studies and subjects of thought, partake a little of the nature of the _magus_.

Magic, as popularly understood, has no existence, it is a literal _myth_--for it means nothing but what amazes or amuses for a short time.

No miracle would be one if it became common.