I became the secretary of two committees--for the reform of the prisons and the whole system of exile, and for preparing a scheme of municipal self-government--and I set to work with all the enthusiasm of a youth of nineteen years.
Kropotkin describes his enthusiastic involvement in committees focused on prison reform and municipal self-government.
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