Industrial Chemistry 



coiiraged. What mighty meditations In the 

 sombre church! What glowing dreams, soon 

 to be followed by sore disappointment, when 

 experiment spoke the last word and upset the 

 scaffolding of my plans. Stubborn as the 

 slave of old amassing a pecullum for his en- 

 franchisement, I used to reply to the check of 

 yesterday by the fresh attempt of to-morrow, 

 often as faulty as the others, sometimes the 

 richer by an Improvement, and I went on In- 

 defatigably, for I too cherished the Indomi- 

 table ambition to set myself free. 



Should I succeed? Perhaps so. I at last 

 had a satisfactory answer. I obtained. In a 

 cheap and practical fashion, the pure colour- 

 ing-matter, concentrated In a small volume and 

 excellent for both printing and dyeing. One 

 of my friends took up my process on a large 

 scale in his works; a few calico- factories 

 adopted the produce and expressed themselves 

 delighted with it. The future smiled at last; a 

 pink rift opened In my grey sky. I should pos- 

 sess the modest fortune without which I must 

 deny myself the pleasure of teaching In a uni- 

 versity. Freed of the torturing anxiety about 

 my daily bread, I should be able to live at 

 ease among my Insects. 



In the midst of the joys of seeing these 



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