Excerpt from Chronologies and CalendarsIndo-arabic numerals. But how very often are these phrases used in conversation, or the digits preserved on paper without the speaker or recorder troubling himself to enquire whether there are other methods of noting the date? For instance, I can recall a sermon preached about twenty years ago by an eminent English Church divine (now deceased), in which he pictured the absurdity of any' rationalist. Remaining a rationalist who used the year iaf grade'to 51546 his letters. The argument was all right on the surface. As soon, however, as one peruses the chrono logical authorities, one finds that the Christian era has a limited application and that there are and were other races - by no means blind to civilisation. - which possess more ancient systems of reckoning years, months, and days.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.