— But if abstract science is a luxury and practice of medicine mere chicane; if law spells injustice, and mechanical invention is but the means of robbery; if the school, at variance with the wisdom of the "practical man," is sure to be overcome; and art without the revolutionary idea can only degenerate, what remains for me to do?
— Well, I will tell you. A vast and most enthralling task; a work in which your actions will be in complete harmony with your conscience, an undertaking capable of rousing the noblest and most vigorous natures.
— What work?
— I will now tell you.

Read on: An Appeal to the Young by Peter Kropotkin, 1880

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-an-appeal-to-the-young

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