I saw that it must be treated by the same methods as natural sciences; not, however, on the slippery ground of mere analogies, such as Herbert Spencer accepts, but on the solid basis of induction applied to human institutions.
Kropotkin advocates for treating social issues with methods akin to those used in natural sciences, emphasizing empirical approaches.
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The amount of interest in socialism and all sorts of schemes of reform and reconstruction of society was very great in all layers of society.
However, I found that the comprehension of ‘struggle for life’ in the sense of a war-cry of ‘Woe to the weak,’ raised to the height of a commandment of nature revealed by science, was so deeply inrooted in this country that it had become…
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