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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: And they are so few, in comparison with the ever-growing requirements of industry--and of science as well, as I am about…

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And they are so few, in comparison with the ever-growing requirements of industry--and of science as well, as I am about to prove--that all over the world we hear complaints about the scarcity of precisely such men.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin notes the global complaints about the scarcity of skilled individuals who bridge the gap between science and manual labor.

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