Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “The results of this development are simply striking.”

That so small an area of land can produce so much wealth is nothing short of astonishing.

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.

There is not a single manufacturer or tradesman who, even in the most trifling circumstances, does not do his best to emancipate himself from foreign guardianship.” The best French and English patterns are imitated and improved by a touch…

It is a fact that chemical manures, without organic manure, seldom prove to be sufficient.