Forethoughtful

But we live in an age of the world when a spirit is abroad which is more than directly and blessedly influential on the present,— which is forethoughtful and prospective, casting its relations like strong grappling-irons over the future, and claiming its issues.

Meal times always caught the majority unaware. They tumbled and jostled down the companionways only to find the wise and forethoughtful had preëmpted every chair.

And I should have been forethoughtful enough to see the looming danger.