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CHRONOLOGIES AND CALENDARS.
chronological bases. All systems of chronology have suffered, more or less, from the obliterating tendency of time, and the wilful, as well as the accidental, destruction of documents. The most important chronology in the ancient world, that of Rome, is a striking example of what has been said. It is dealt with in the next chapter. Lord Acton's dicta regarding opinions versus documents, receives, in the history of the "City," a continuous current of high support from those who have striven to obtain cosmos in classical chronology.
