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(Kropotkin, Mutual Aid (1902), Introduction)

It is not love and not even sympathy
upon which Society is based in humankind.
It is the conscience–
be it only at the stage of an instinct–of human solidarity.

It is the unconscious recognition of the force
that is borrowed by each human from the practice of mutual aid;

of the close dependency of everyone's happiness upon the happiness of all;

and of the sense of justice, or equity,
which brings the individual to consider
the rights of every other individual
as equal to her or his own.

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