Hope and History Hales and destiny

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All true works of fiction have their scenes laid in the same country

Cornell University

Even as she piles farm success upon social success

Is a loving relationship between God and human beings a myth or a reality

Hope and History Hales and destinyBy Josef Pieper Hope and History The future is our only end. This provocative selection from Pascals Penses reads as the epigraph to Josef Piepers 1967 Hope and History. The remark, in full, reads: The past and the present are our means; the future is our only end. With the philosophical precision and imaginative brilliance typical of all Piepers writings, Hope and History assesses the acutely urgent question of what precisely constitutes the meaning