A HUNDRED YEARS HENCE
A HUNDRED YEARS HENCE
The Expectations of an Optimist
By
T. BARON RUSSELL
Author of “A Guardian of the Poor,” “The Mandate,” etc.
LONDON
T. Fisher Unwin
Paternoster Square
1905
There is a history in all men’s lives,
Figuring the nature of the times deceased;
The which observed, a man may prophesy,
With a near aim, of the main chance of things
As yet not come to life; which in their seeds
And weak beginnings lie intreasured.
Shakespeare, 2 Henry IV., III. i.
They pass through whirl-pools, and deep woes do shun,
Who the event weigh, ‘ere the action’s done.
Webster, Duchess of Malfi, II. 4.