The Morning of the Magicians

Quality	The rare and unique is better	“the limited nature of physical structure of the Universe:the non existence of atoms; restricted sources of fundamental energy; the inability of a mathematical formula to yield more than it already contains; the futility of intuition; the narrowness and absolutely mechanical nature of a Mans internal world; these were the things that scientists believed in, and this attitude of mind applied to everything and created the climate which permeated every branch of knowledge in this century” pg 40	he is saying that all of these bizarre and unique things that happen in our universe is good
Amplification	Divide a whole into parts	“We believe that the alchemist feels a kind of transmutation taking place within himself…”  pg 108 “more than a hundred books on alchemy are known to exist..” pg 109  “The alchemists speak of the necessity of distilling water to be used in the preparation of the elixir…” pg 110 “These are some of the alchemist achievements..” pg 111	The whole chapter is just basically breaking apart alchemy and alchemists into different parts and analyzing it
Single	One event is an example	“In the year 1910 there lived in New York, a little bourgeois apartment in the Bronx, a little man..”  pg 142	The chapter goes on to tell this extremely long story about this man who wrote about “the vanished civilizations”