Most minerals were described by Berzelius as adducts of binary oxides (a concept close to double salts). Werner pointed out that most double cyanides, many complexes of anmonia and/or of amines, and indirectly even some aqua ions have very slow rates of dissociation contrary to those salt hydrates formed as by freezing of a melt. The era 1916-1984 of electron-pair bonds ignored the inconsistency of the "covalent" or "electrovalent" dichotomy; crystallography confinned most (but not all) of Werner's intuitions; and lip-service was rendered to quantum mechanics as the Chemical Theory of Everything (and the rest). Today we are in a cataclysmic turmoil, separating the factual observables from pedagogic-model chemistry nearly as much as astrophysics from astrology. Arguments related to Werner complexes are presented.