Besides, I began gradually to understand that revolutions, i.e. periods of accelerated rapid evolution and rapid changes, are as much in the nature of human society as the slow evolution which incessantly goes on now among the civilized races of mankind.
Kropotkin emphasizes the natural occurrence of revolutions as part of societal evolution.
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