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Nay, they have raised the contempt of manual labour to the height of a theory.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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gutenberg.orgPetr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Nay, they have raised the contempt of manual labour to the height of a theory.”
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Kropotkin points out that the disdain for manual labor has become a theoretical stance among scientists, reflecting a societal issue.
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