The Future, Accurately Predicted

G.K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News (December 16, 1911):

If I wrote a romance about the future (which Heaven avert!), I should describe a state in which the big shops and businesses had become almost independent kingdoms or clans, the power of the employer over clerks and shopmen enormous; the power of the State over the employer comparatively slight.

G.K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News (June 9, 1934):

I have not the slightest difficulty in imagining the world of the future taking a turn which would bring back the fact, if not the form, of witch-hunting and slavery and the persecution of heresies.