Socialist on principle, he carried out his principles in his most frugal and laborious mode of living, toiling on passionately at his great scientific work--the main purpose of his life--a work which was to be a nineteenth-century counter-part to the famous Tableau de la Nature of the Encyclopædists.
Kropotkin describes his brother's commitment to socialism and his dedication to scientific work, illustrating his principles in action.
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