There was a time, and that time is not so far back, when both were thoroughly combined; the villages were then the seats of a variety of industries, and the artisans in the cities did not abandon agriculture; many towns were nothing else but industrial villages.
Kropotkin reminisces about a time when villages combined various industries with agriculture, contrasting it with modern separation.
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