For our present purpose, then, I describe as Modern History that which begins four hundred years ago, which is marked off by an evident and intelligible line from the time immediately preceding, and displays in its course specific and distinctive characteristics of its own #10.
The modern age did not proceed from the medieval by normal succession, with outward tokens of legitimate descent.
By an English nineteenth century historian John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton.
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