This was the method of thought with which I endeavoured to familiarize our readers--using plain comprehensible words, so as to accustom the most modest of them to judge for himself whereunto society is moving, and himself to correct the thinker if the latter comes to wrong conclusions.
Kropotkin aimed to educate readers in understanding societal movements and encouraging critical thinking.
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