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When we look back briefly over Kropotkin's youth, we can see the literal exactitude of this answer. The circumstances of childhood--his mother's gentle intelligence, his father's harsh neglect, his own close personal contact with the tyrannised serfs, the fostering influence of Smirnov and the books he readin this early period--all contributed to a character predisposed towards independence of thought and compassion