When we look back on ages past, and see there the same sufferings, we may say that perhaps then they were unavoidable on account of the ignorance which prevailed.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “When we look back on ages past, and see there the same sufferings, we may say that perhaps then they were unavoidable on…”
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Kropotkin suggests that past sufferings were often due to ignorance, implying a need for progress and enlightenment.
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