How much better the historian and the sociologist would understand humanity if they knew it, not in books only, not in a few of its representatives, but as a whole, in its daily life, daily work, and daily affairs!
Kropotkin believes that a holistic understanding of humanity requires knowledge of its daily life and work, beyond just theoretical study.
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And wherever the village-community spirit is maintained, the small industries persist, while no effort is spared to bring the small plots under higher culture.
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.
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