In this country, the United States and Russia, instead of accepting the decimal system, which is the system of our numeration, they still torture the children by making them learn a system of weights and measures which ought to have been abandoned long since.
Kropotkin highlights the outdated measurement systems used in the U.S. and Russia, advocating for the decimal system.
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