Surely there are such men; happily enough there is a nucleus of men who have escaped the so-much-advocated specialisation of labour, and it is precisely to them that industry owes its chief recent inventions.
Kropotkin celebrates the few individuals who have transcended the specialization of labor, attributing significant inventions to them.
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