Such a book would also offer a great interest in that it would show to what an extent that mingling together of agriculture with industry, which I described in the first edition of this book as “the factory amidst the fields,” has progressed of late in Switzerland.
Kropotkin reflects on the integration of agriculture and industry in Switzerland, which he previously described.
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