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In the whole of the ethnological literature there are not many works imbued to the same extent with a thorough and sympathetic understanding of the true nature of primitive man.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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Kropotkin emphasizes the importance of understanding primitive societies in ethnological studies.
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