Download or read book Anno Domini 2071(Annotated) written by Pieter Harting and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When comparing the present condition of society with that of past centuries the question naturally arises, what will the future be ? Will the same progress which, in our own times especially, has been of such vast dimensions, and manifested itself in so many directions, continue to he 'progressive ? And if so-- for who could think of reaction, since the art of printing has guarded against any future of the human mind being ever effaced--where is to be the ultimate goal of the progress of our successors ? Where are we to look for the fruits of those innumerable germs which the present generation is sowing for the benefit of those that will come after them ? These, and similar other questions, occupied my mind when, seated one afternoon in my comfortable arm-chair, I allowed my thoughts freely to wander amid the manes of those that preceded us.