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  KINDS 
  OF 
  CHRONOLOGY. 
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  Antiquity 
  of 
  Man, 
  one, 
  and 
  one 
  only, 
  gives 
  

   us 
  any 
  knowledge 
  of 
  Time-absolute 
  ; 
  and 
  

   that 
  is 
  History. 
  From 
  all 
  the 
  others 
  we 
  can 
  

   gather 
  only 
  the 
  less 
  definite 
  information 
  of 
  

   Time-relative. 
  They 
  can 
  tell 
  us 
  of 
  nothing 
  

   more 
  than 
  of 
  the 
  order 
  in 
  which 
  certain 
  events 
  

   took 
  place. 
  But 
  of 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  interval 
  

   between 
  those 
  events, 
  neither 
  Archaeology, 
  nor 
  

   Geology, 
  nor 
  Ethnology 
  can 
  tell 
  us 
  anything. 
  

   Even 
  History, 
  that 
  is, 
  the 
  records 
  of 
  Written 
  

   Documents, 
  carries 
  us 
  back 
  to 
  times 
  of 
  which 
  

   no 
  contemporary 
  account 
  remains, 
  and 
  the 
  

   distance 
  of 
  which 
  in 
  years 
  from 
  any 
  known 
  

   epoch 
  is, 
  and 
  must 
  be, 
  a 
  matter 
  of 
  con- 
  

   jecture. 
  No 
  other 
  history 
  than 
  the 
  Hebrew 
  

   History 
  even 
  professes 
  to 
  go 
  back 
  to 
  the 
  

   Creation 
  of 
  Man, 
  or 
  to 
  give 
  any 
  account 
  of 
  

  

  