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I had returned from my adventure on the labour levels in a mood of sombre depression. Alone again in my apartment I found difficulty in getting my mind back upon chemical books. With a sense of relief I reported to Holknecht that I thought myself sufficiently2 recovered to return to work.
My laboratory I found to be almost as secluded3 as my living quarters. I was master there, and as a research worker I reported to no man until I had finished the problem assigned me. From my readings and from Holknecht's endless talking I had fairly well grasped the problem on which I was supposed to be working, and I now had Holknecht go carefully over the work he had done in my absence and we prepared a report. This I sent to headquarters with a request for permission to start work on another problem, the idea for which I claimed to have conceived on my visit to the attacked potash mines.
Permission to undertake the new problem was promptly5 granted. I now set to work to reproduce in a German laboratory the experiments by which I had originally conquered the German gas that had successfully defended those mines from the world for over a century. Though loath6 to make this revelation, I knew of no other "Discovery" wherewith to gain the stakes for which I was playing.
Events shaped themselves most rapidly along the lines of my best hopes. The new research proved a blanket behind which to hide my ignorance. We needed new material, new apparatus8, and new data and I encouraged Holknecht to advise me as to where to obtain these things and so gained requisite9 working knowledge.
The experiments and demonstrations11 finished, I made my report. My immediate12 superior evidently quickly recognized it as a matter too important for his consideration and dutifully passed it up to his own superiors. In a few days I was notified to prepare for a demonstration10 before a committee of the Imperial Chemical Staff.
They came to my small laboratory with much eager curiosity. From their manner of making themselves known to me I realized with joy that they were dealing13 with a stranger. Indeed it was improbable that it should have been otherwise for there were upwards14 of fifty thousand chemists of my rank in Berlin.
The demonstration went off with a flourish and the committee were greatly impressed. Means were at once taken to alter the gas with which the Stassfurt mines were flooded, but I realized that meant nothing since I believed that my companions had abandoned the enterprise and the secret that had enabled me to invade mines had not been shared with any one in the outer world.
As I anticipated, my revelation was accepted by the Chemical Staff as evidence of profound scientific genius. It followed as a logical matter that I should be promoted to the highest rank of research chemists with the title of Colonel. Because of my youth the more was made of the honour. This promotion15 entitled me to double my previous salary, to a larger laboratory and larger and better living quarters in a distant part of the city.
My assistant would now be of the rank I had previously16 been and as Holknecht was not eligible17 to such promotion I was removed entirely18 from all previous acquaintances and surroundings and so greatly decreased the chance of discovery of my true identity.
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After I had removed to my new quarters I was requested to call at the office of the Chemical Staff to discuss the line of research I should next take up. My adviser19 in this matter was the venerable Herr von Uhl, a white haired old patriarch whose jacket was a mass of decorations. The insignia on the left breast indicating the achievements in chemical science were already familiar to me, but those on the right breast were strange.
Perhaps I stared at them a little, for the old man, noting my interest, remarked proudly, "Yes, I have contributed much glory to the race and our group,--one hundred and forty-seven children,--one hundred and four of them sons, fifty-eight already of a captain's rank, and twenty-nine of them colonels--my children of the second and third generation number above two thousand. Only three men living in Berlin have more total descendants--and I am but seventy-eight years of age. If I live to be ninety I shall break all records of the Eugenic20 Office. It all comes of good breeding and good work. I won my paternity right, when I was but twenty-eight, just about your age. If you pass the physical test, perhaps you can duplicate my record. For this early promotion you have won qualifies you mentally."
Astonished and alarmed beyond measure I could find no reply and sat staring dumbly, while Herr von Uhl, beginning to speak of chemical matters, inquired if I had any preference as to the problem I should now take up. Incapable21 of any clear thinking I could only ask if he had any to suggest.
Immediately the old man's face brightened. "A man of your genius," he said, "should be permitted to try his brain with the greatest problems on which the life of Germany depends. The Staff discussed this and has assigned you to original research for the finding of a better method of the extraction of protium from the ore. To work on this assignment you must of necessity share grave secrets, which, should they be disclosed, might create profound fears, but your professional honour is a sufficient guarantee of secrecy22. In this research you will compete with some of the most distinguished23 chemists in Berlin. If you should be successful you will be decorated by His Majesty24 and you will receive a liberal pension commensurate with the value of your discovery."
I was profoundly impressed. Evidently I had stumbled upon something of vital importance, the real nature of which I did not in the least comprehend, and happily was not supposed to. The interview was ended by my being entrusted25 with voluminous unpublished documents which I was told to take home and study. Two armed men were ordered to accompany me and to stand alternate guard outside my apartment while I had the documents in my possession.
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In the quiet of my new abode26 I unsealed the package. The first sheet contained the official offer of the rewards in store for success with the research. The further papers explained the occasion for the gravity and secrecy, and outlined the problem.
The colossal27 consequence of the matter with which I was dealing gripped and thrilled me. Protium, it seemed, was the German name for a rare element of the radium group, which, from its atomic weight and other properties, I recognized as being known to the outside world only as a laboratory curiosity of no industrial significance.
But, as used by the Germans, this element was the essence of life itself, for by the influence of its emanations, they had achieved the synthesis of protein capable of completely nourishing the human body--a thing that could be accomplished28 in the outside world only through the aid of natural protein derived29 from plants and animals.
How I wished, as I read, that my uncle could have shared with me this revelation of a secret that he had spent his life in a fruitless effort to unravel30. We had long since discovered how the Germans had synthesized the carbohydrate31 molecule32 from carbon dioxide and water and built therefrom the sugars, starches33 and fat needed for human nutrition. We knew quite as well how they had created the simpler nitrogen compounds, that this last step of synthesizing complete food proteins--a step absolutely essential to the support of human life wholly from synthetic foods--the chemists of the outer world had never mastered.
But no less interesting than the mere34 chemistry of all this was the history of it all, and the light it threw on the larger story of how Germany had survived when the scientists of the world had predicted her speedy annihiliation. The original use of protium had, I found, been discovered late in the Twentieth Century when the protium ores of the Ural Mountains were still available to the German chemists. After Russia had been won by the World Armies, the Germans for a time suffered chronic35 nitrogen starvation, as they depended on the protium derived from what remained of their agriculture and from the fisheries in the Baltic. As the increasing bombardment from the air herded37 them within their fast building armoured city, and drove them beneath the soil in all other German territory and from the surface of the sea in the Baltic; they must have perished miserably38 but for the discovery of a new source of protium.
This source they had found in the uninhabited islands of the Arctic, where the formation of the Ural Mountains extends beneath the sea. Sending their submarines thence in search of platinum39 ores they had not found platinum but a limited supply of ore containing the even more valuable protium. By this traffic Germany had survived for a century and a half. The quantity of the rare element needed was small, for its effect, like that of radium, was out of all proportion to its bulk. But this little they must have, and it seems that the supply of ore was failing.
Nor was that all to interest me. How did the German submarine get to the Arctic since the World State had succeeded, after half a century of effort, in damming the Baltic by closing up several passes among the Danish Islands and the main pass of the sound between Zealand and Sweden? I remember, as a youngster, the great Jubilee40 that celebrated41 the completion of that monumental task, and the joy that hailed from the announcement that the world's shipping42 would at last be freed from an ancient scourge43.
But little had we of the world known the magnitude of the German fears as the Baltic dam neared completion. We had thought merely to protect our commerce from German piracy44 and perhaps to stop them from getting a little copper45 and rubber in some remote corner of the earth. But we did not realize that we were about to cut them off from an essential element without which that conceited46 and defiant47 race must have speedily run up the white flag of absolute surrender or have died to the last man, like rats in a neglected trap.
But the completion of the Baltic dam evidently had not shut off the supply of Arctic ore, for the annual importation of ore was given right up to date though the Baltic had been closed for nearly a score of years. Eagerly I searched my papers for an item that would give some hint as to how the submarines got out of the dammed-up Baltic. But on that point the documents before me were silent. They referred to the Arctic ore, gave elaborate details as to mineralogy and geology of the strata48 from which it came, but as to the ways of its coming into Berlin there was not the slightest suggestion. That this ore must come by submarine was obvious. If so, the submarine must be at large in the Atlantic and Arctic seas, and those occasional reports of periscopes49 sighted off the coast of Norway, which have never been credited, were really true. The submarines, or at least their cargoes50, must reach Berlin by some secret passage. Here indeed was a master mystery, a secret which, could I unravel it and escape to the outer world with the knowledge, would put unconditionally51 within the power of the World State the very life of the three hundred millions of this unholy race that was bred and fed by science in the armoured City of Berlin, or that, working like blind moles52 of the earth, held the world at bay from off the sterile53 and pock-marked soil of all that was left of the one-time German Empire.
That night I did not sleep till near the waking hour, and when the breakfast container bumped into the receiving cupboard I was nodding over the chemical papers amid strange and wonderful dreams.
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Next day with three assistants, themselves chemists of no mean rank, I set to work to prepare apparatus for repeating all the known processes in the extraction and use of the rare and vital element. This work absorbed me for many weeks, during which time I went nowhere and saw no one and slept scarce one hour out of four.
But the steady application told upon me, and, by way of recreation, I decided54 to spend an evening on the Level of Free Women, a place to which, much though it fascinated me, I had not yet mustered55 the courage to go.
My impression, as I stepped from the elevator, was much as that of a man who alights from a train in a strange city on a carnival56 night. Before me, instead of the narrow, quiet streets of the working and living quarters of the city, there spread a broad and seemingly endless hall of revelry, broken only by the massive grey pillars that held up the multi-floored city. The place was thronged58 with men of varied59 ranks and professions. But more numerous and conspicuous60 were the women, the first and only women that I had seen among the Germans--the Free Women of Berlin, dressed in gorgeous and daring costumes; women of whom but few were beautiful, yet in whose tinted61 cheeks and sparkling eyes was all the lure62 of parasitic63 love.
The multi-hued apparel of the throng57 dazzled and astonished me. Elsewhere I had found a sterile monotony of dress and even of stature64 and features. But here was resplendent variety and display. Men from all the professional and military classes mingled65 indiscriminately, their divers66 uniforms and decorations suggesting a dress ball in the capital of the world. But the motley costumes of the women, who dressed with the license67 of unrestrained individuality, were even more startling and bizarre--a kaleidoscopic68 fantastic masquerade.
I wondered if the rule of convention and tyranny of style had lost all hold upon these women. And yet I decided, as I watched more closely, that there was not an absence of style but rather a warfare69 of styles. The costumes varied from the veiled and beruffled displays, that left one confounded as to what manner of creature dwelt therein, to the other extreme of mere gaudily70 ornamented71 nudity. I smiled as I recalled the world-old argument on the relative modesty73 of much or little clothing, for here immodesty was competing side by side in both extremes, both seemingly equally successful.
But it was not alone in the matter of dress that the women of the Free Level varied. They differed even more strikingly in form and feature, for, as I was later more fully4 to comprehend, these women were drawn74 from all the artificially specialized75 breeds into which German science had wrought76 the human species. Most striking and most numerous were those whom I rightly guessed to be of the labour strain. Proportionally not quite so large as the males of the breed, yet they were huge, full-formed, fleshly creatures, with milky77 white skin for the most part crudely painted with splashes of vermilion and with blued or blackened brows. The garishness78 of their dress and ornament72 clearly bespoke79 the poorer quality of their intellect, yet to my disgust they seemed fully as popular with the men as the smaller and more refined types, evidently from the intellectual strains of the race.
Happily these ungainly women of the labour strain were inclined to herd36 by themselves and I hastened to direct my steps to avoid as much as possible their overwhelming presence.
The smaller women, who seemed to be more nearly human, were even more variegated80 in their features and make-up. They were not all blondes, for some of them were distinctively81 dark of hair and skin, though I was puzzled to tell how much of this was inborn82 and how much the work of art. Another thing that astonished me was the wide range of bodily form, as evidently determined83 by nutrition. Clearly there was no weight-control here, for the figures varied from extreme slenderness to waddling84 fatness. The most common type was that of mild obesity85 which men call "plumpness," a quality so prized since the world began that the women of all races by natural selection become relatively86 fatter than men.
For the most part I found these women unattractive and even repellent, and yet as I walked about the level I occasionally caught fleeting87 glimpses of genuine beauty of face and form, and more rarely expressions of a seeming high order of intelligence.
This revelling88 multitude of men and girls was uproariously engaged in the obvious business of enjoying themselves by means of every art known to appeal to the mind of man--when intelligence is abandoned and moral restraint thrown to the winds.
I wended my way among the multitude, gay with colour, noisy with chatter89 and mingled music, redolent with a hundred varieties of sensuous90 perfume. I came upon a dancing floor. Whirling and twisting about the columns, circling around a gorgeous scented91 and iridescent92 fountain, officers and scientists, chemists and physicians, each clasping in his arms a laughing girl, danced with abandon to languorous93 music.
As I watched the dance I overheard two girls commenting upon the appearance of the dancers. Whirling by in the arms of a be-medalled officer, was a girl whose frizzled yellow hair fell about a dun-brown face.
"Did you see that, Fedora, tanned as a roof guard and with that hair!"
"Well, you know," said the other, "it's becoming quite the fashion again."
"Why don't you try it? Three baths would tan you adorably and you do have the proper hair."
"Oh, yes, I have the hair, all right, but my skin won't stand it. I tried it three years ago and I blistered94 outrageously95."
The talk drifted to less informing topics and I moved on and came to other groups lounging at their ease on rugs and divans96 as they watched more skilful97 girls squirming through some intricate ballet on an exhibition platform.
Seeing me stand apart, a milk-white girl with hair dyed pink came tugging98 at my arm. Her opalescent99 eyes looked from out her chalky countenance100; but they were not hard eyes, indeed they seemed the eyes of innocence101. As I shook my head and rebuffed her cordial advance I felt, not that I was refusing the proffered102 love of a painted woman, but rather that I was meanly declining a child's invitation to join her play. In haste I edged away and wandered on past endless gaming tables where men in feverish103 eagerness whirled wheels of chance, while garishly104 dressed girls leaned on their shoulders and hung about their necks.
Announced by shouts and shrieking105 laughter I came upon a noisy jumble106 of mechanical amusement devices where men and girls in whirling upholstered boxes were being pitched and tumbled about.
Beyond the noise of the childish whirligigs I came into a space where the white ceiling lights were dimmed by crimson107 globes and picture screens were in operation. It did not take long for me to grasp the essential difference between these pictured stories and those I had seen in the workmen's level. There love of woman was entirely absent from the screen. Here it was the sole substance of the pictures. But unlike the love romances of the outer world, there were no engagement rings, no wedding bells, and never once did the face or form of a child appear.
In seating myself to see the pictures I had carefully chosen a place where there was only room for myself between a man and one of the supporting columns. At an interlude the man arose to go. The girl who had been with him arose also, but he pushed her back upon the bench, saying that he had other engagements, and did not wish her company. The moment he was gone the girl moved over and proceeded to crowd caressingly108 against my shoulder. She was a huge girl, obviously of the labour strain. She leaned over me as if I had been a lonely child and she a lonelier woman. Crowded against the pillar I could not escape and so tried to appear unconcerned.
"Did you like that story?" I asked, referring to the picture that had just ended.
"No," she replied, "the girl was too timid. She could never have won a roof guard captain in that fashion. They are very difficult men, those roof guard officers."
"And what kind of pictures do you prefer?" I asked.
"Quartettes," she answered promptly. "Two men and two girls when both girls want the other man, and both men want the girl they have. That makes a jolly plot. Or else the ones where there are two perfect lovers and the man is elected to paternity and leaves her. I had a man like that once and it makes me sad to see such a picture."
"Perhaps," I said, speaking in a timorous109 voice, "you wanted to go with him and be the mother of his children?"
She turned her face toward me in the dim light. "He talked like that," she said, "and then, I hated him. I knew then that he wanted to go and leave me. That he hadn't tried to avoid the paternity draft. Yes, he wanted to sire children. And he knew that he would have to leave me. And so I hated him for ever loving me."
A strange thrill crept over me at the girl's words. I tried to fathom110 her nature, to separate the tangle111 of reality from the artificial ideas ingrained by deliberate mis-education. "Did you ever see children? Here, I mean. Pictures of them, perhaps, on the screen?"
"Never," said the girl, drawing away from me and straightening up till my head scarce reached her shoulder. "And I never want to. I hate the thought of them. I wish I never had been one. Why can't we--forget them?"
I did not answer, and the labour girl, who, for some technical flaw in her physique had been rejected for motherhood, arose and walked ponderously112 away.
After this baffling revelation of the struggle of human souls caught in the maw of machine-made science, I found the picture screen a dull dead thing, and I left the hall and wandered for miles, it seemed, past endless confusion of meaningless revelry. Everywhere was music and gaming and laughter. Men and girls lounged and danced, or spun113 the wheels of fortune or sat at tables drinking from massive steins, a highly flavoured variety of rather ineffectual synthetic beer. Older women served and waited on the men and girls, and for every man was at least one girl and sometimes as many as could crowd about him. And so they sang, and banged their mugs and sloshed their frothy beverage114.
A lonely stranger amidst the jostling throngs115, I wandered on through the carnival of Berlin's Level of Free Women. Despite my longing116 for human companionship I found it difficult to join in this strange recrudescent paganism with any ease or grace.
Girls, alone or in groups, fluttered about me with many a covert117 or open invitation to join in their merry-making, but something in my halting manner and constrained118 speech seemed to repulse119 them, for they would soon turn away as if condemning120 me as a man without appreciation122 of the value of human enjoyment123.
My constraint124 and embarrassment125 were increased by a certain sense of guilt126, a feeling which no one in this vast throng, either man or woman, seemed to share. The place had its own standard of ethics127, and they were shocking enough to a man nurtured128 in a human society founded on the sanctification of monogamous marriage. But merely to condemn121 this recreational life of Germany, by likening it to the licentious129 freedom that exists in occasional unrestrained amusement places in the outer world, would be to give a very incorrect interpretation130 of Berlin's Level of Free Women. As we know such places elsewhere in the world there is always about them some tacit confession131 of moral delinquency, some pretence132 of apology on the part of the participants. The women who so revel7 in the outer world consider themselves under a ban of social disapproval133, while the men are either of a type who have no sense of moral restraint or men who have for the time abandoned it.
But for this life in Berlin no guilt was felt, no apology offered. The men considered it as quite a normal and proper part of their life, while the women looked upon it as their whole life, to which they had been trained and educated and set apart by the Government; they accepted the r?le quite as did the scientist, labourer, soldier, or professional mother. The state had decreed it to be. They did not question its morality. Hence the life here was licentious and yet unashamed, much, as I fancy was the life in the groves134 of Athens or the baths of ancient Rome.
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