We all know that the child ought, at least, to be familiarised with the forces of Nature which some day he will have to utilise; that he ought to be prepared to keep pace in his life with the steady progress of science and technics; that he ought to study science and learn a trade.
Kropotkin stresses the importance of educating children about nature and science to prepare them for the future.
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Almost every year brings some new, often unexpected improvement in the art of agriculture, which for so many centuries had been dormant.
As to the yet neutral markets, China will never be a serious customer to Europe: she can produce much cheaper at home; and when she begins to feel a need for goods of European patterns, she will produce them herself.
At Oyonnax, a small town on the Ain, we have a big centre for the fabrication of combs, an industry more than 200 years old, which took a new development since the last war through the invention of celluloid.
But the monopoly of industrial production could not remain with England for ever.
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