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It has become an article of faith; and the economical history of the century which has elapsed since Adam Smith wrote has been, so to speak, an actual commentary upon it.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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gutenberg.orgPetr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “It has become an article of faith; and the economical history of the century which has elapsed since Adam Smith wrote…”
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Kropotkin asserts that the economic history of the past century serves as a commentary on Smith's original work.
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