ABSTRACT
Development of ideas transcends life and death of the creators of those ideas. It was by coincidence (during an occasional meeting with Ragnar Rommetveit) that I got to know of the late David Herbst’s intellectual efforts. What followed was occasional correspondence with David, which ended when the message of his untimely death reached me. Persons die, but ideas remain, and this chapter (together with the publication of Herbst’s paper that was originally not meant for a volume on developmental thinking in psychology) should both pay tribute to the author who is no longer with us and preserve his intellectual contribution to the understanding of the world.
