I saw what an immense amount of labour the Finnish peasant spends in clearing the land and in breaking up the hard boulder clay, and I said to myself, ‘I will write, let me say, the physical geography of this part of Russia, and tell the peasant the best means of cultivating this soil.
Kropotkin expresses his desire to document the agricultural practices of Finnish peasants to aid their cultivation efforts.
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As to the honest longing for more technical education--surely let us all have as much of it as possible: it will be a boon for humanity; for humanity, of course--not for a single nation, because knowledge cannot be cultivated for home use…
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.
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.
Wars and several accidental causes may check for some time the scattering of industries: they will not stop it; it is unavoidable.
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