## Metadata - Author: [[Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin]] - Full Title: Mutual Aid; A Factor of Evolution - Published: - Category: #books ## Highlights - It is a feeling infinitely wider than love or personal sympathy—an instinct that has been slowly developed among animals and men in the course of an extremely long evolution, and which has taught animals and men alike the force they can borrow from the practice of mutual aid and support, and the joys they can find in social life. [◊](https://readwise.io/open/281724513) ^rw281724513 - 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. [◊](https://readwise.io/open/281724514) ^rw281724514 - It is the unconscious recognition of the force that is borrowed by each man from the practice of mutual aid; of the close dependency of every one'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 his own [◊](https://readwise.io/open/281724515) ^rw281724515 - the savage and half-savage masses, [◊](https://readwise.io/open/281724516) ^rw281724516 - Note: This is certainly a eurocentric book of its time. --- tags: books aliases: Mutual Aid; A Factor of Evolution date created: 2022-03-31 publish: true ---  ## Metadata - Author: [[Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin]] - Full Title: Mutual Aid; A Factor of Evolution - Published: - Category: #books ## Highlights - It is a feeling infinitely wider than love or personal sympathy—an instinct that has been slowly developed among animals and men in the course of an extremely long evolution, and which has taught animals and men alike the force they can borrow from the practice of mutual aid and support, and the joys they can find in social life. [◊](https://readwise.io/open/281724513) ^rw281724513 - 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. [◊](https://readwise.io/open/281724514) ^rw281724514 - It is the unconscious recognition of the force that is borrowed by each man from the practice of mutual aid; of the close dependency of every one'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 his own [◊](https://readwise.io/open/281724515) ^rw281724515 - the savage and half-savage masses, [◊](https://readwise.io/open/281724516) ^rw281724516 - Note: This is certainly a eurocentric book of its time. ---