Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Not only are we taught a mass of rubbish, but what is not rubbish is taught so as to make us waste over it as much time…”

And at the same time we learn that immense quantities of land go every year out of culture, to be transformed into game reserves for rich Englishmen and foreigners.

Few books have exercised so pernicious an influence upon the general development of economic thought as Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population exercised for three consecutive generations.

The small industries are as much a distinctive feature of the British industry as its few immense factories and ironworks.

For improving our methods of culture to that extent, we surely need not divide the land into one-acre plots, and attempt to grow what we are in need of by everyone’s separate individual exertions, on everyone’s separate plot with no better…