The Principles of Political Economy

Henry Sidgwick

Book 3, Chapter 2, Footnote #09
Interest of future generations


There is no abstract reason why the interest of future generations should be less considered than that of the now existing human beings; allowance being made for the greater uncertainty that the benefits intended for the former will actually reach them and actually be benefits.


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