He believed "that there are possessions, and that the bodies of the possest have hence been not only afflicted, but strangely agitated, if not their tongues improved to foretell Futurities; and why not to accuse the innocent as bewitching them?
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam
And what is the seed but a casket of pre-arranged Futurities, with its whole contents prospective, settled to be what they are by reference to ends still in the distance?"
"Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I"
Herbert Spencer
I always liked that pious Arab qualification when speaking of Futurities.
"Down the Columbia"
Lewis R. Freeman