 attention to the patterns and lessons of
history that might be analogous or relevant to the future.

<P><U>Among the fallacies that diminish wisdom about the future, and that
ideonomy could help to combat, are that</U>: the future will simply repeat
the past; the course of the future is predetermined and inalterable; the
world of the present represents the best of all possible worlds; human
knowledge and wisdom are nearly complete and perfect--and our ignorance
small and unimportant; the future is too comp