VIII. That these dissolvents are permanent, yeajixed with things

dissolved in them.

It is by the former descriptions of dissolvents manifest, that
as well the spirit of philosophical wine, as dissolvents made of
it, do stick to the things dissolved in them. There is indeed no
better argument to confirm the excellency of dissolvents, than that
they are homogeneous and permanent with things dissolved, and
consequently dissolvents transmutable with the dissolved into a
third substance different from both. These dissolvents therefore
are so far from being immutable, that, according to the Edict of
the whole crowd of philosophers, to wit, the dissolution of the
body is the coagulation of the spirit, and so on the contrary,
nothing in the more secret enemy, can be more infallible.