Under the guidance of my new preceptors I entered with the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life; but the latter soon obtained my undivided attention. Wealth was an inferior object, but what glory would attend the discovery if I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death! Which lines from the text most clearly suggest that the narrator will fight against nature

"Wealth was an inferior object, but what glory would attend the discovery if I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death! "

Explanation:

Death and illness is a natural part of life and part of the nature of human beings. When the narrator of the text shown above states that he wants to fight disease and eliminate the natural death of human life, he is showing that he wants to fight against nature. This shows a type of conflict very common in literature, the conflict "character versus nature", where the human being in the face of his limitations seeks ways to defeat natural things and make them not be a problem in his life.