Wars and several accidental causes may check for some time the scattering of industries: they will not stop it; it is unavoidable.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Wars and several accidental causes may check for some time the scattering of industries: they will not stop it; it is…”
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Kropotkin acknowledges that while wars may temporarily disrupt industrial scattering, it is an inevitable process.
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