Lincoln's understanding that Americans would fight and sacrifice to preserve what he called "mankind's last best hope" rested on the nation's sense of its past and future place in world history.
The failure of causal determinism is aptly pictured by the image of a future "branching" of world histories, with the different branches representing different alternative possible futures of (the domain of dependence of) Σ0 that are compatible with the actual past and the laws of physics.
He was a man who "presided over the great decisions which determined the future course of English and world history".
We rescued the most powerful nation in world history from a future defined by warmongering, ignorance, cruelty, homophobia, Christian fundamentalism, unfettered greed, environmental destruction, and a disregard for the rule of law.
Former fundamentalists like me know that your worldview is so encompassing, authoritarian, and powerful that it defines who you think you are, the way you view the world, history, other people, the future, and your place in the world.
As Toynbee's vast "Study of History" revealed a vision of a future world governed by a kind of rarefied Christianity, Kaplan's slender essay foresees a vaguely unified world without states, with globalization in place of religion.
In 1964, Chessworld magazine published an article in which future World Champion Bobby Fischer listed the ten greatest players in history.
Chinese leaders proposed ideas and institutions for domestic and international governance drawn from China's own history and culture and seek to image the future world order in terms of their own past.
Future World features evolving technology and thrilling rides such as Test Track and the gentle Spaceship Earth, which explores the history of communications.
The whole of world history is known by God's immutable vision, which includes the knowledge of things which are future contingents in the temporal order.
