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Show Age of the World. The reckoning of time among all nations na-tions reaches back to practically the same period. Chinese, Indians and Egptians all assume that the earth was 80,000 years old before It could have assumed the state in which It is now. The oldest book of Chinese annals an-nals does not commence Its historical record from an earlier time than that of the Trojan war. Neither do the Indians carry back their historical age more than 5,000 years. According to scriptural chronology, in that way of reckoning it, which appears the most probable to most historians, almost 3.000 years may be added to the Indians' In-dians' computation. |