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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “In the painful work of civilisation he has shown us the way to follow; but the ideal of modern civilisation is…”

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In the painful work of civilisation he has shown us the way to follow; but the ideal of modern civilisation is elsewhere.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin reflects on the lessons learned from the Paris gardener while asserting that the true ideal of civilization lies elsewhere.

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