I not only lost in him a dear personal friend, but I felt also that this parting was the burial of a whole epoch, full of long-cherished hopes--‘full of illusions,’ as it became the fashion to say.
Kropotkin expresses his sorrow over the loss of a friend and the end of an era of hope.
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