Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “How dare I talk to him of American machines, when all that he can raise must be sold to pay rent and taxes?”

That so small an area of land can produce so much wealth is nothing short of astonishing.

And the division and subdivision--the permanent subdivision--of functions has been pushed so far as to divide humanity into castes which are almost as firmly established as those of old India.

Any soil, of any desired composition, can be made by machinery.

Few books have exercised so pernicious an influence upon the general development of economic thought as Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population exercised for three consecutive generations.