Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “The young generation gave to Russia that remarkable staff of ‘peace mediators’ and justices of the peace who contributed…”

There is not a single manufacturer or tradesman who, even in the most trifling circumstances, does not do his best to emancipate himself from foreign guardianship.” The best French and English patterns are imitated and improved by a touch…

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

Cottons, plain linen, and machine-made lace are now produced at such a low cost by machinery that hand-weaving evidently becomes an anachronism for the plainest descriptions of such goods.

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.