How much more medicine would trust to hygiene, and how much less to prescriptions, if the young doctors were the nurses of the sick and the nurses received the education of the doctors of our time!
Kropotkin critiques the medical education system, suggesting that practical experience would improve trust in hygiene over prescriptions.
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And yet it is easy to prove that both are totally erroneous: plenty of food could be grown on the territories of Western Europe for much more than their present populations, and an immense benefit would be derived from doing so.
As to the yet neutral markets, China will never be a serious customer to Europe: she can produce much cheaper at home; and when she begins to feel a need for goods of European patterns, she will produce them herself.
Any soil, of any desired composition, can be made by machinery.
Almost every year brings some new, often unexpected improvement in the art of agriculture, which for so many centuries had been dormant.
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