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If you had lived in the early decades of the sixteenth century, how would you have thought about the future? Presumably, you would have considered it in everyday terms: you would have wondered whether it would rain tomorrow, speculated about what might happen in your town over the summer, and hoped to get married someday. But, in other respects, your approach to the future might have been unusual, at least by our modern lights. If you were religious—and who wasn’t?—then you might have taken for granted that “the End of the World was approaching,” the historian Reinhart Koselleck writes, in his book “Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time.”
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