Quote of the Week: Charles Austin Beard and Hari Seldon

If a science of history were achieved, it would, like the science of celestial mechanics, make possible the calculable prediction of the future in history. It would bring the totality of historical occurrences within a single field and reveal the unfolding future to its last end, including all the apparent choices made and to be made. It would be omniscience. The creator of it would possess the attributes ascribed by the theologians to God. The future once revealed, humanity would have nothing to do except to await its doom. Charles Austin Beard 1933

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This quotation reminds me of Isaac Asimov; and it was part of an article in the Journal of American History written by the eminent historian Charles Austin Beard nine years before The Foundation Trilogy was begun.