Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “What the peasant does not understand is abstract notions when they are not illustrated by concrete examples.”

The figures show, on the contrary, what an immense number of small factories and workshops resist the absorption by the big factories, and how they multiply by the side of the great industry in various branches, especially those of recent…

It is a fact that chemical manures, without organic manure, seldom prove to be sufficient.

There is not a second India in the world, and the old conditions will be repeated no more.

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.