How will the future view our time?

I saw this Joseph F. Smith quote posted on Open Sky Visions blog, and had to share it here:

Open Sky Visions: The LDS Church and Constitutional Amendments:

'I say let the national solons amend the Constitution, to punish and insult and degrade this little handful of men who are rapidly passing away, and when they shall see the magnitude of their acts compared with the insignificance of the cause, they and their historians will laugh at their folly, and write them down asses in the broadest sense.' (Joseph F. Smith to Reed Smoot, April 9, 1904.)