And then, is there a higher æsthetic delight than to read poetry in a language which one does not quite thoroughly understand?
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “And then, is there a higher æsthetic delight than to read poetry in a language which one does not quite thoroughly…”
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Kropotkin contemplates the aesthetic pleasure of reading poetry in a foreign language.
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Italy aspires to go on without foreign produce.
We have already, in the facts mentioned in this chapter, an experimental basis for quite a number of means of improving our present methods of culture and of largely increasing the crops.
And yet it is easy to prove that both are totally erroneous: plenty of food could be grown on the territories of Western Europe for much more than their present populations, and an immense benefit would be derived from doing so.
And wherever the village-community spirit is maintained, the small industries persist, while no effort is spared to bring the small plots under higher culture.

