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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “This preparatory work took me more than two years; and then followed months of intense thought, in order to find out…”

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This preparatory work took me more than two years; and then followed months of intense thought, in order to find out what the bewildering chaos of scattered observations meant, until one day, all of a sudden, the whole became clear and comprehensible, as if it were illuminated with a flash of light.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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He describes the moment of clarity he experienced after years of research and contemplation.

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