The present tendency of economical development in the world is--we have seen--to induce more and more every nation, or rather every region, taken in its geographical sense, to rely chiefly upon a home production of all the chief necessaries of life.
Kropotkin discusses the trend of nations increasingly relying on home production for essential goods.
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