of
bells rings false!'

Hardly was the factory in full swing when a piece of news was
bruited, at first a vague rumor, an echo of probabilities rather than
certainties, and then a positive statement leaving no room for doubt.
Chemistry had obtained the madder dye by artificial means; thanks to a
laboratory concoction, it was utterly overthrowing the agriculture and
industries of my district. This result, while destroying my work and my
hopes, did not surprise me unduly. I myself had toyed with the problem
of artificial alizarin and I knew enough about it to foresee that, in
no very distant future, the work of the chemist's retort would take the
place of the work of the fields.

It was finished; my hopes were dashed to the ground. What to do next?
Let us change our lever and begin to roll Sisyphus' stone once more. Let
us try to draw from the ink pot what the madder vat declines to yield.
Laboremus!

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