New industries thus grow up to supplant the old ones; each of them passes through a preliminary stage on a small scale before reaching the great factory stage; and the more active the inventive genius of a nation is, the more it has of these budding industries.
Kropotkin discusses the evolution of industries from small-scale to large-scale production.
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