Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “The peasant much too easily submits to force, but he does not worship it.”

To every house a garden is attached, and none of the misery of big cities is to be seen.

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

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.

Almost every year brings some new, often unexpected improvement in the art of agriculture, which for so many centuries had been dormant.