In this country, the United States and Russia, instead of accepting the decimal system, which is the system of our numeration, they still torture the children by making them learn a system of weights and measures which ought to have been abandoned long since.
Kropotkin highlights the outdated measurement systems used in the U.S. and Russia, advocating for the decimal system.
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The small bicycle workshops, with the hundreds of small improvements which they introduced, have been under our very eyes the primary cells out of which the great industry of the motor cars, and later on of the aeroplanes, has grown up.
And the division and subdivision--the permanent subdivision--of functions has been pushed so far as to divide humanity into castes which are almost as firmly established as those of old India.
To every house a garden is attached, and none of the misery of big cities is to be seen.
But the monopoly of industrial production could not remain with England for ever.
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