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-- Nikolai Strakhov, 1870s
Compared to now, he was wrong.
Why should we think he will be wrong about our future when he was wrong about his own?
Well, he was right. After all, WWI and WWII then lay just ahead. And our current, relatively peaceful period may, in fact, be building up to a period yet worse than that. Though, of course, we hope it's not.