It also appears very probable that if we find a highly developed working population in Vienna and Warsaw, this depends again to a very great extent upon the very considerable development of similar small industries, which stimulate invention and so much contribute to develop the worker’s intelligence.
Kropotkin discusses the relationship between small industries and the intelligence of the working population in Vienna and Warsaw.
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