B843 <=> B845 [BTG XL Heptaparaparshinokh, p. 844]

“Among those unimportant fragments which automatically reached most of the contemporary favorites of yours there are, firstly, several methods of separating from the Polormedekhtian product named opium certain of its independent active elements; secondly, what is called ‘the law of combination of colors’; and thirdly, what is called, the ‘seven-toned scale of sound.’

“As regards the first of the enumerated three fragments of the practical results attained by the Reason of three-brained beings of this ancient China and which reached to your contemporary favorites, it is necessary to tell you that in consequence of the fact that certain of the constituent parts of this whole product called there opium became from then on – thanks to the special properties of their agreeable action on the abnormal general-psyche of the beings – to be continuously used by them, therefore the knowledge of many methods of getting certain of its independent active elements began to be transmitted from generation to generation and reached down to your contemporary favorites.

“And at the present time they also obtain many of its definite parts and use them very avidly for the satisfaction of always the same consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer crystallized in them.

“These parts extracted by them from the general composition of this Polormedekhtian product have of course already other names among your contemporary favorites.

“A contemporary ‘comical learned chemist,’ a certain Mendelejeff, even collected the names of all those active elements now obtained and classified them as it were according to their ‘atomic weights.’