What Peter Kropotkin thinks about documentation

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Russian anarchist political philosopher and geographer (1842 to 1921), a proponent of anarchist communism; lived in exile in England from 1886 to 1917; author of Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902).

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   Our readingThe documents historians rely on exaggerate the part of human life given to struggle and underrate its peaceful side

   Their wordsLeaving aside the preconceived ideas of most historians and their pronounced predilection for the dramatic aspects of history, we see that the very documents they habitually peruse are such as to exaggerate the part of human life given to struggles and to underrate its peaceful moods. The bright and sunny days are lost sight of in the gales and storms.

   ↗Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902)gutenberg.org All 17 from this book