Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Agriculture calls manufactures into existence, and manufactures support agriculture.”

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.

But the appearance of the cotton industry in a country, or, in fact, of any textile industry, unavoidably becomes the starting-point for the growth of a series of other industries; chemical and mechanical works, metallurgy and mining feel…

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

Italy aspires to go on without foreign produce.