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Human development is...
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Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.
Source: Quoted by Isaiah Berlin in: Franco Venturi, Roots of Revolution, Introduction (1952; tr. 1960).
-- Alexander Herzen, (Apr 6 1812-1870), Russian author; He distrusted governments, was sceptical of western democratic forms, and had great faith in the power of peasants and other ordinary people to organise themselves.