And its total amount would be far smaller than the amount of labour which every thousand persons, taken from this or from any other nation, have now to spend in getting their present food, much smaller in quantity and of worse quality.
Kropotkin compares the labor required for rational agriculture to the current labor needed for food production, highlighting its efficiency.
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