Human skill in the treatment of living matter, and science--in its branch dealing with living organisms--step in with the intention of doing for the art of food-growing what mechanical and chemical skill have done in the art of fashioning and shaping metals, wood and the dead fibres of plants.
This quote illustrates Kropotkin's vision of applying scientific and mechanical advancements to agriculture, similar to other industries.
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But now it is capable, thanks to the work of the Flemish peasants and to irrigation, to produce the food of one milch cow per acre--the dung of the cattle being utilised for further improvements.
That so small an area of land can produce so much wealth is nothing short of astonishing.
Italy aspires to go on without foreign produce.
And wherever the village-community spirit is maintained, the small industries persist, while no effort is spared to bring the small plots under higher culture.
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