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Updated: May 3, 2025
This is literally 'beating the air. The ancients imagined tortures particularly trying to nature, that of Sisyphus to wit; everlasting labor embittered by everlasting nihilification. We have made Sisyphism vulgar. Here are fifteen Sisyphi. Only the wise or ancients called this thing infernal torture; our old women call it salutary discipline."
And this must always be the case when one starts upon a wrong principle, because the absurd and injurious results to which it leads, cannot but check it in its progress. For this reason, practical industry never can admit of Sisyphism. The error is too quickly followed by its punishment to remain concealed.
Thanks to the restrictive measures of these gentlemen, sixteen days' work were necessary to procure it, by direct production. Here then we have double labor for an identical result; therefore double riches; and riches, measured not by the result, but by the intensity of labor. Is not this pure and unadulterated Sisyphism?
When, therefore, these men lament the suppression of labor in attaining a given result, they maintain the doctrine of Sisyphism.
And again, equally avowed and acknowledged, its object and effect are, the increase of prices a synonymous term for scarcity of produce. Pushed then to its greatest extreme, it is pure Sisyphism as we have defined it; labor infinite; result nothing.
Indeed it is in this continuous effort, and in this alone, that intellect consists. Sisyphism has been the doctrine of all those who have been intrusted with the regulation of the industry of our country.
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