Alchemy's Speech Analysis

1) I believe that Crookes made a very strong and correct move in stating that the human population was going to run out of food. Obviously, people back then didn't understand that food is harder to get than they think. I mean the only thing they knew was animal poop and human poop combined with some urine could make food grow better. I think that doesn't mean anything. Here's what I say to them: "Okay... So all you know is that poop and urine make food. You guys have no idea why. And you don't understand why crop rotation works. You are all idiots." Back to the point. So, Crookes goes and states that the human population will starve to death by the 1930s, at maximum the 1950s. I expect The Royal Society to think that Crookes is crazy; and honestly, I don't blame them. When Crookes gave his speech in 1898, the British had acquired almost all of Africa. They felt that they were in control of the world. So, the Royal Society probably didn't care much for the speech …show more content…
It started in the times of the B.C. Back then, people didn't know much about the different elements and chemicals. They did know that certain things mixed with other things could make things they needed. Alchemy is best known by people because of the Philosopher's Stone. This mythical and magical stone supposedly has the power to change any element into gold and produce the elixir of immortality. Nonetheless, alchemy did fail. This is because people didn't know what to mix and how to mix it. So, they gold weird mixtures of metals and things that didn't really do much. Alchemy did lead to the the creation of modern chemistry, and chemistry has been very helpful to us. What's weird is that in 2016, some society found papers that Isaac Newton wrote about how to create some type of mercury. This mercury was an ingredient in making the Philosopher's Stone. Weird, right? Information on Isaac Newton and papers found at: