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What moves a person to help a neighbour whose house is on fire is a wide instinct of human solidarity, not love
Drawn from what Peter Kropotkin said
What Peter Kropotkin actually said
- Peter Kropotkin Russian anarchist political philosopher and geographer (1842 to 1921)
It is not love to my neighbour—whom I often do not know at all—which induces me to seize a pail of water and to rush towards his house when I see it on fire; it is a far wider, even though more vague feeling or instinct of human solidarity and sociability which moves me.
Where this was said
↗Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902)gutenberg.org
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