Science seldom guided them, and sometimes misguided--as was the case with Liebig’s theories, developed to the extreme by his followers, who induced us to treat plants as glass recipients of chemical drugs, and who forgot that the only science capable of dealing with life and growth is physiology, not chemistry.
Kropotkin critiques the reliance on chemical theories in agriculture, advocating for a physiological understanding of plant growth.
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