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"The duration of the
historic period of mankind, 5000 years, is but a small fraction of the
prehistoric period. If we could compress man's age on earth into one
single day of 12 hours, this literary period would begin at about 11:53
PM, the Crusades would have been fought about 1 minute 44 seconds ago,
and America discovered about 55 seconds ago. But man's existence is in
turn out of all proportion to the history of the earth itself. If the
earth's age could be compressed into one single year, the first eight
months would be completely devoid of life; mamals would not make their
appearance until the second week of December; man would make his debut
on December 31 at 11:45 PM, writing would have been invented less than a
minute ago, Christ would have been born 22 seconds ago, and America
discovered six seconds ago."
From The Near East in History by Philip
Hitti, published by D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc.
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