There have been German philosophers, I am thinking especially of Hegel and his follower Marx, who believed that the future in its general lines admitted of being scientifically foretold; more fools they. Our relation to the future is not that the future, while it is still future, is to be foreknown by us; the future can be known only when it has become the present; but that it has to be made by us, by the strength of our hands and the stoutness of our hearts.
(R. G. Collingwood, The Three Laws of Politics, L. T. Hobhouse Memorial Trust Lecture No. 11 [London: Humphrey Milford, for Oxford University Press, 1941], 1-26, at 25-6)
