We begin to understand that, all taken, it is the intellectual factor--the spirit of invention, the capacity of adaptation, political liberty, and so on--which counts for more than all others.
Kropotkin highlights the significance of intellectual factors in industrial evolution over mere physical resources.
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The small industries are as much a distinctive feature of the British industry as its few immense factories and ironworks.
But force is reciprocal; and if the god of war always sides with the strongest battalions, those battalions are strongest which fight for new rights against outgrown privileges.
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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.
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