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What can a weaver invent who merely supervises four looms, without knowing anything either about their complicated movements or how the machines grew to be what they are?
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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Kropotkin questions the inventive capacity of a weaver who only supervises looms without understanding their mechanics.
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It is time to conclude, and, for every unprejudiced mind, the conclusion is self-evident.
He can do it; and in so doing he would save an immense quantity of the work which is now given for buying his food abroad, and for paying all the intermediaries who live upon this trade.
Cottons, plain linen, and machine-made lace are now produced at such a low cost by machinery that hand-weaving evidently becomes an anachronism for the plainest descriptions of such goods.
At Oyonnax, a small town on the Ain, we have a big centre for the fabrication of combs, an industry more than 200 years old, which took a new development since the last war through the invention of celluloid.
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