Note 3 — Chapter I · THE PRINCIPLE OF PRIVATE PROPERTY
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An enormous amount of confusion has been caused by the loose application of the term “Development,” to all processes of change in life. Strictly speaking, development means unfolding. But the process by which the tape-worm has degenerated from the higher species to which it once belonged is not a process of unfolding or development, but one of loss and reduction, one of gradual truncation and limitation.