Agriculture cannot develop without the aid of machinery, and the use of a perfect machinery cannot be generalised without industrial surroundings: without mechanical workshops, easily accessible to the cultivator of the soil, the use of agricultural machinery is not possible.
Kropotkin discusses the interdependence of agriculture and machinery, stressing the need for accessible industrial support.
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