| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Like thinkers in other great ancient civilisations, the Chinese alchemists believed that Nature was an organism and everything had a life-cycle; therefore minerals and metals also grew inside the earth, slowly developing along a scale of perfection over immense stretches of time.e This process differed from other kinds of growth in two respects which taken together provided the basic rationale of
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