“If the future seems to us a kind of limbo, a repository of endless surprises, it is because we no longer see it as the expected culmination of the past, as the growing edge of the present. […] The problem, then, is to establish a sense of order and continuity in the face of the historic realities which confront us. […] The fact that the future is inscrutable for each of us individually does not mean that is is equally impenetrable for all of us collectively.
