Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “There are not many joys in human life equal to the joy of the sudden birth of a generalization, illuminating the mind…”

There is not a single manufacturer or tradesman who, even in the most trifling circumstances, does not do his best to emancipate himself from foreign guardianship.” The best French and English patterns are imitated and improved by a touch…

The falsifications discovered by these laboratories exceed all that could have been imagined.

That so small an area of land can produce so much wealth is nothing short of astonishing.

And wherever the village-community spirit is maintained, the small industries persist, while no effort is spared to bring the small plots under higher culture.