And each new branch of activity calls into existence more and more new branches, which steadily increase the power of man over the forces of nature.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “And each new branch of activity calls into existence more and more new branches, which steadily increase the power of…”
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Kropotkin discusses how new activities lead to increased human capabilities in harnessing nature.
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At Oyonnax, a small town on the Ain, we have a big centre for the fabrication of combs, an industry more than 200 years old, which took a new development since the last war through the invention of celluloid.
To every house a garden is attached, and none of the misery of big cities is to be seen.
There is not a second India in the world, and the old conditions will be repeated no more.
He can do it; and in so doing he would save an immense quantity of the work which is now given for buying his food abroad, and for paying all the intermediaries who live upon this trade.

