The world--the wide, wide world--is now the true domain of knowledge; and if each nation displays some special capacities in some special branch, the various capacities of different nations compensate one another, and the advantages which could be derived from them would be only temporary.
Kropotkin argues that knowledge is now a global asset, with nations benefiting from each other's unique capacities.
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