All those forms of outward politeness which are mere hypocrisy were equally repugnant to him, and he assumed a certain external roughness as a protest against the smooth amiability of his fathers.
Kropotkin describes a person's rejection of societal hypocrisy and the embrace of a rough exterior as a form of protest.
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