Was there ever before in history, I ask myself, a youthful band engaging in a fight against so formidable a foe, so deserted by fathers and even by elder brothers, although those young men had merely taken to heart, and had tried to realize in life, the intellectual inheritance of these same fathers and brothers?
Kropotkin reflects on the isolation felt by youth in their revolutionary efforts due to the lack of support from older generations.
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