VI PREFACE. 



increasing division of labour in analogy with 

 what we see in biology has rendered the syn- 

 thesis possible ; and a distinct tendency towards a 

 synthesis of human activities becomes now apparent 

 in modern economical evolution. This tendency 

 is analysed in the subsequent chapters a special 

 weight being laid upon the present possibilities 

 of agriculture, which are illustrated by a number 

 of examples borrowed from different countries, 

 and upon the small industries to which a new 

 impetus is being given" by the new methods of 

 transmission of motive power. 



The substance of these essays was published 

 in 1888-1890 in the Nineteenth Century, and of 

 one of them in the Forum. However, the ten- 

 dencies indicated therein have been confirmed 

 during the last ten years by such a mass of 

 evidence that a very considerable amount of new 

 matter had to be introduced, while the chapters 

 on agriculture and the small trades had to be 

 written anew. 



I take advantage of this opportunity to ad- 

 dress my best thanks to the editors of the Nine- 

 teenth Century and the Forum for their kind 

 permission of reproducing these essays in a new 

 form, as also to those friends and correspondents 

 who have aided me in collecting information 

 about agriculture and the petty trades. 



P, KRQPOTKIN. 



BROMLEY, KENT, 1898. 



