Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “When a reaction has gained the upper hand, all visible traces of a movement disappear.”

But force is reciprocal; and if the god of war always sides with the strongest battalions, those battalions are strongest which fight for new rights against outgrown privileges.

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.

The world--the wide, wide world--is now the true domain of knowledge; and if each nation displays some special capacities in some special branch, the various capacities of different nations compensate one another, and the advantages which…

The small industries are as much a distinctive feature of the British industry as its few immense factories and ironworks.