Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . ion. The argumentis that greatly beyond this date of theearliest formal efforts of mankind to ex-press its knowledge of itself lay the mistyand inchoate realm of tradition andfable. The time relation oY such an ageis deduced from the character of its prod-ucts. If the beginnings of history areto be found in wide-apart regions of theearth at a date as remote as twenty cen-turies before the common era, how greatmust
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . ion. The argumentis that greatly beyond this date of theearliest formal efforts of mankind to ex-press its knowledge of itself lay the mistyand inchoate realm of tradition andfable. The time relation oY such an ageis deduced from the character of its prod-ucts. If the beginnings of history areto be found in wide-apart regions of theearth at a date as remote as twenty cen-turies before the common era, how greatmust be the. distance of that childhoodof the race and that early youth whenthe mind, still surrounded with all vis-ions and dreams, looked forth into alandscape and beheld on every side menas trees walking! Chapter Inquiry. E may next note withinterest the resultswhich have bee nreached in chronologyproper. This scienceis, as we have said, apart of history. Everyhistoric event must, in the nature of thecase, have a time locus, and its signifi-cance will depend upon its temporal rela-tions. No satisfactory interpretation canbe made of the affairs of men without. considering them in their relations anddependencies of time. So important hasbeen this element in the annals of man-kind that a distinct Science of Time hasbeen developed, and to this is given thename of chronology. Many ages ago the thinkers of theworld began to see the importance ofan accurate system of time measure-ment applied to the affairs of peoples andnations. It is not known, indeed, at howearly a date attempts were made to in- TIME OF THE BEGINNING.—CHRONOLOGICAL INQUIRE 139 vent from astronomical data a system ofyears and eras. Perhaps every peopleAil races seek to in the world on arriving atSEEKS. the conscious and rationalment- stage of development busied itself with the problems of a rotation of the earth and the posi-tion and aspect of the spheres furnishedthe data of the fir
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