Antiquitas Saeculi Juventus Mundi." These Times Are The Ancient Times, When The World Is Ancient, And Not Those Which We Account Ancient Ordine Retrogrado, By A Computation Backward From Ourselves.

Antiquitas Saeculi Juventus Mundi." These Times Are The Ancient Times, When The World Is Ancient, And Not Those Which We Account Ancient Ordine Retrogrado, By A Computation Backward From Ourselves.

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"Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi." These times are the ancient times,
when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient
ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.
-- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
-- Advancement of Learning, Book i, (1605.)

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