The very fact of their belonging to a government which radiated from a distant capital caused them to look upon everything from the point of view of functionaries of the government, who think first of all about what their superiors will say, and how this or that will appear in the administrative machinery.
Kropotkin discusses how distant government officials perceive local matters through a bureaucratic lens.
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