But the appearance of the cotton industry in a country, or, in fact, of any textile industry, unavoidably becomes the starting-point for the growth of a series of other industries; chemical and mechanical works, metallurgy and mining feel at once the impetus given by a new want.
Kropotkin discusses how the emergence of the cotton industry stimulates the growth of related industries.
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Wars and several accidental causes may check for some time the scattering of industries: they will not stop it; it is unavoidable.
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.
And the division and subdivision--the permanent subdivision--of functions has been pushed so far as to divide humanity into castes which are almost as firmly established as those of old India.
There is not a second India in the world, and the old conditions will be repeated no more.
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