The rate of scientific progress would have been tenfold; and if the individual would not have the same claims on posterity’s gratitude as he has now, the unknown mass would have done the work with more speed and with more prospect for ulterior advance than the individual could do in his lifetime.
Kropotkin asserts that collective efforts in science would lead to faster progress than individual contributions.
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