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But suddenly all Sunday schools, in which the mass of the peasantry would have learned to read in a few years, without any expenditure by the State, were closed.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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Kropotkin laments the closure of Sunday schools that were instrumental in educating the peasantry.
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