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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: The flight of genius which has characterised the workers at the outset of modern industry has been missing in our…

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The flight of genius which has characterised the workers at the outset of modern industry has been missing in our professional men of science.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin laments the lack of creative genius among modern professional scientists compared to early industrial workers.

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