Quotation by Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.
Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky (1828–1889), Russian writer, philosopher. Quoted by Isaiah Berlin in his introduction to Franco Venturi, Roots of Revolution (1952, trans. 1960).
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