The letter M stands for " Midland."
The name of Torquemada stands for all that is intolerant and narrow, despotic and cruel.
His general formula for getting at the number of units in any sensation is S = C log R, where s stands for the sensation, R for the stimulus numerically estimated, and c for a constant that must be separately determined by experiment in each particular order of sensibility.
But " alchemy " was something more than a particularly vain and deluded manifestation of the thirst for gold, as it is sometimes represented; in its wider and truer significance it stands for the chemistry of the middle ages.
In reality it stands for a more thoroughgoing and consistent application of the test of experience.
