The more I read the more I saw that there was before me a new world, unknown to me, and totally unknown to the learned makers of sociological theories--a world that I could know only by living in the Workingmen’s Association and by meeting the workers in their everyday life.
Kropotkin reflects on how his reading revealed a new world of workers' experiences that sociological theories overlooked.
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