It was bound to accomplish an act of justice towards the serfs--whose condition in Poland was as bad as, and often worse than, in Russia itself--by granting them better and more definite conditions of emancipation.
Kropotkin argues for the necessity of justice for Polish serfs, highlighting their dire conditions.
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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.
But now it is capable, thanks to the work of the Flemish peasants and to irrigation, to produce the food of one milch cow per acre--the dung of the cattle being utilised for further improvements.
There is not a second India in the world, and the old conditions will be repeated no more.
But the monopoly of industrial production could not remain with England for ever.
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