However, I found that the comprehension of ‘struggle for life’ in the sense of a war-cry of ‘Woe to the weak,’ raised to the height of a commandment of nature revealed by science, was so deeply inrooted in this country that it had become almost a matter of religion.
Kropotkin critiques the societal interpretation of 'struggle for life' as a justification for oppression, likening it to a religious belief.
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They are entirely in our institutions, in our inheritances and survivals from the past--in the “Ghosts” which oppress us.
The small bicycle workshops, with the hundreds of small improvements which they introduced, have been under our very eyes the primary cells out of which the great industry of the motor cars, and later on of the aeroplanes, has grown up.
It is time to conclude, and, for every unprejudiced mind, the conclusion is self-evident.
That so small an area of land can produce so much wealth is nothing short of astonishing.
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