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In all such matters, in which intellect is the supreme judge, everyone in discussion used his own arguments.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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gutenberg.orgPetr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “In all such matters, in which intellect is the supreme judge, everyone in discussion used his own arguments.”
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Kropotkin emphasizes that discussions were based on individual arguments rather than a single intellectual authority.
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