Whatever was started for the good of the country by local men was looked at with distrust, and was immediately paralyzed by hosts of difficulties which came, not so much from the bad intentions of the administrators, but simply from the fact that these officials belonged to a pyramidal, centralized administration.
He critiques the bureaucratic obstacles that hinder local progress in Russia.
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The small industries are as much a distinctive feature of the British industry as its few immense factories and ironworks.
It is time to conclude, and, for every unprejudiced mind, the conclusion is self-evident.
To every house a garden is attached, and none of the misery of big cities is to be seen.
But the monopoly of industrial production could not remain with England for ever.
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