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It is utterly impossible to foresee at the present moment the limits…

Quote byPeter Kropotkin · 1842–1921

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899).

English (original)

it is utterly impossible to foresee at the present moment the limits as to the maximum number of human beings who could draw their means of subsistence from a given area of land, or as to what a variety of produce they could advantageously grow in any latitude.

— Peter Kropotkin

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