In Ansbach Maximilian von Montgelas wrote an elaborate concept for the future political organisation of Bavaria, which is known as the " Ansbacher Mémoire ".

In doing so, Paul extends Habakkuk's original concept of righteous living at the present time into a future life.

The central argument in Principles was that the present is the key to the past – a concept of the Scottish Enlightenment which David Hume had stated as " all inferences from experience suppose ... that the future will resemble the past ", and James Hutton had described when he wrote in 1788 that " from what has actually been, we have data for concluding with regard to that which is to happen thereafter.

Styx continued to have multiplatinum albums with their 1981 release Paradise Theater ( a concept album about a decaying theater in Chicago which became a metaphor for childhood and American culture ) and 1983's Kilroy Was Here ( a science fiction rock opera about a future where moralists imprison rockers ).

" This restated the Scottish Enlightenment concept which David Hume had put in 1777 as " all inferences from experience suppose ... that the future will resemble the past ", and Charles Lyell memorably rephrased in the 1830s as " the present is the key to the past ".

He interprets history, understands its dynamic, predicts the future, but in addition to predicting it, he expresses a revolutionary concept: the world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed.

It would however take a while before the first of these films appeared, and at this point many thought of the concept mainly as a radical idea with no future.

If, in some future experiment, one of the mass-related phenomena is shown to not be proportional to the others, then that specific phenomenon will no longer be considered a part of the abstract concept of mass.

This ability to manipulate musical data has also introduced the concept of surrogate orchestras, providing a combination of half sequenced MIDI recordings and half musicians to make up an entire orchestral arrangement ; however, scholars believe surrogate orchestras have the possibility of affecting future live musical performances in which the use of live musicians in orchestral arrangements may cease entirely because the composition of music via MIDI recordings proves to be more efficient and less expensive.

Kurzweil is generally recognized as a public advocate for the futurist and transhumanist movements, due to his stances on life extension technologies, his efforts to forecast future advances in technology, and his interest in the concept of the technological singularity.

In the early 1980s, significant uncertainties surrounded the RISC concept, and it was uncertain if it could have a commercial future, but by the mid-1980s the concepts had matured enough to be seen as commercially viable.

Inc. v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Co .) Continuity is both a closed and open ended concept, referring to either a closed period of conduct, or to past conduct that by its nature projects into the future with a threat of repetition.

The state, along with the concept of property and taxation are concepts exclusive to commercial society ; placing them within the context of a future socialist society amounts to distortion of these concepts.

The Sontaran homeworld was destroyed in the future during the events of the Seventh Doctor strip Pureblood ( DWM # 193-196 ) but the Sontaran race pool survived, allowing for further cloning ; the strip introduced the concept of " pureblood " Sontarans not born of cloning.

2000 album Deltron 3030, was a concept album about a rapper, portrayed by Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, from the future.

As America's Founding Fathers shared a perfect horror at the concept of arbitrary courts of justice, such as those " of Philip in the Netherlands, in which life and property were daily confiscated without a jury, and which occasioned as much misery and a more rapid depopulation of the province ", they incorporated the right to trial by jury into the Bill of Rights, thereby restoring what soon-to-be United States Supreme Court Justice James Iredell described as that " noble palladium of liberty ", and protecting it from the reach of future legislators.

The inter-religious utopia borders on a concept like Polyculturalism and is not deemed possible in the near future or the near-far future.

Its basic, and equally grandiose idea, was that, as the French Revolution of 1789 had enlarged the concept of individual liberty, another revolution would now be needed for national liberty ; and his vision went further because he hoped that in the no doubt distant future free nations might combine to form a loosely federal Europe with some kind of federal assembly to regulate their common interests.

The main concept of the Modernist movement was to develop innovative ideas and new technology: design concerned with the present and the future, rather than with history and tradition.

" Stanton defended the concept of woman suffrage, saying women would then be able to affect future legislation and gain further rights.

In the future, Haifa and the Krayot suburbs will be linked by the Metronit, a Phileas concept bus rapid transit system currently under construction.

Intended to prevent future coups, dictatorial government, and one-party states, it is designed to establish the concept of powersharing.

The Next-Generation Secure Computing Base ( NGSCB ), formerly known as Palladium, is a software architecture designed by Microsoft which is expected to implement parts of the controversial " Trusted Computing " concept on future versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system.

This makes them more sympathetic to the concept of reunification in the future.

Nichiren, on the other hand, confirms that the teachings of the Lotus Sutra will flourish for all eternity, and that the Bodhisattvas of the Earth will propagate Buddhism in the future.

While the question of human freedom in the metaphysical sense loses interest to the absurd man, he gains freedom in a very concrete sense: no longer bound by hope for a better future or eternity, without a need to pursue life's purpose or to create meaning, " he enjoys a freedom with regard to common rules ".

Louis Jacobs writes that modern Jewish thinkers such as Levi Olan, echoing some classical Jewish writers such as the 14th-century Talmudist Gersonides have " thought of God as limited by His own nature so that while He is infinite in some respects he is finite in others ," referencing the idea, present in classical sources, that " there is a primal formless material co-existent with God from all eternity upon which God has to work and that God only knows the future in a general sense but not how individual men will exercise their choice.

* In Divine Comedy ( Inferno, Canto XX ), Dante sees Tiresias in the fourth pit of the eighth circle of Hell ( the circle is for perpetrators of fraud and the fourth pit being the location for astrologers, sorcerers, soothsayers, diviners, and false prophets who claim to see the future when they couldn't ) He was condemned to walk for eternity with his head twisted toward his back ; while in life he strove to look forward to the future, in Hell he must only look backward.

He also described the circle as representing the eternity of time, encompassing the past, present, and future.

On one hand, God may exist in eternity, a timeless existence where categories of past, present, and future just do not apply.

The Shrike may kill victims in a flash or it may transport them to an eternity of impalement upon an enormous artificial ' tree of thorns ' in Hyperion's distant future.

He also described the circle as representing the eternity of time, encompassing the past, present, and future.

* The eternity of future punishment ( 1864 )

The faraway past seems to be the present ; the present and future seem like the past: I experience an intense feeling of the presence of eternity.

Landauer's perception of time and eternity distinguishes itself by regarding past, present and future not as a category of time but as a result of " distortion of space ".

In a sense they have decided to live the Biblical future now, coming into covenant with the revelation and glory of the Word of God ; believing that in the name and revelation of Haile Selassie I, they receive all the blessings and glory of eternity in spirit and truth, i. e. full salvation now, while knowing that the completion of all things has yet to come.

In the act of communion, the entire Church — past, present, and even future — is united in eternity.

Our most elemental and unavoidable impressions, he says, are those of being involved in a large arena of powers which have a longer past than our own, which are interrelated in a vast movement through the present toward the future.

We have proved so able to solve technological problems that to contend we cannot realize a universal goal in the immediate future is to be extremely shortsighted, if nothing else.

I have argued that Oedipus of the Oedipus complex has a doubtful future as a tragic figure in literature.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

Clifford D. Simak's `` How-2 '' ( 1954 ) tells of a future when robots have taken over, leaving men nothing to do ; ;

But he, as I can now retort, was the man who could see so short a distance ahead that after a visit to Russia he gave voice to the famous exclamation: `` I have seen the future and it works ''.

Remembering the step-by-step fate of Danzig and the West German misgivings about `` salami '' tactics, it is to be hoped that the dispatch of General Clay to West Berlin as President Kennedy's representative will mark a stiffening of response not only to future indignities and aggressions but also to some that have passed.

But far from being concerned about whether or not Russia will have achieved Utopia by 1980, the world is watching Moscow today primarily for clues as to whether or not there will be nuclear Armageddon in the immediate future.

In this letter, Mr. Kennedy made it clear that he limited his comment only to one consideration -- what effect the legislative proposals might have on future anti-trust judgments.

It could have unilaterally abandoned further testing on the grounds of the radiation hazard to future generations.

We now have to think not only of our national security but also of the future generations who will suffer from any tests we might undertake.

It is at this time that we should imitate the Pilgrims by accompanying our prayers of thanks with the conviction that we shall continue to be in dire need for the Lord's protection in the future, if we are to have peace ; ;

A site may be a rundown slum or a desolate piece of desert in appearance today but have excellent potentials for the future with a little development or water.

From the wealth of material and the wide variety of different electronic techniques perfected in the past few years we have selected a few examples which appear to be headed for use in the immediate future and which offer completely new tools in medical research.

`` I have come to talk with you about the future of humor and comedy '', I told him, at which he started slightly, and then made us each a stiff drink, with a trembling hand.

It is on them alone that the future of their race depends, for all their relatives ( mothers, husbands, brothers, and unmated sisters ) have perished with the arrival of the cold weather.

Feelings of a community of interest will have to be recreated -- in some of the new nations, indeed, they must be built for the first time -- on a new basis which looks toward the future and does not rely only on shared memories of the past.

Probably, in the immediate future, we will have to settle for middle-range efforts that fall short of utopian models.

Unemployed older workers who have no expectation of securing employment in the occupation in which they are skilled should be able to secure counseling and retraining in an occupation with a future.

Elaborate studies have been made in labor surplus areas in order to identify sufficient numbers of local job vacancies and future replacement needs for certain skills to justify training programs for those skills.

It might be well to point out, however, some of the newer developments that have taken place within the past few months which might have a bearing on the future of the various foamed plastics involved.

You may have misgivings about certain aspects of our military establishment -- I certainly do -- but you know any comparison of over-all American strength with over-all Soviet strength finds the United States not only superior, but so superior both in present weapons and in the development of new ones that our advantage promises to be a permanent feature of U.S.-Soviet relations for the foreseeable future.

Even for those who have been observing the political scene a long time, no script from the past is worth very much in gazing into the state's immediate political future.