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Excerpt from Christian Worship, Its Origin and Evolution: A Study of the Latin Liturgy Up to the Time of Charlemagne
It is, however, specially to the Roman Liturgy that I have directed my researches. Its history is clearly more interesting to us than that of any other, since for centuries it has been the only liturgy of the West.
Although I have not hesitated, when I found it possible, to go back earlier than the fourth century, I have, however, for the most part, confined myself to a less remote chronological period. Attention might be called to very interesting liturgical facts in docu ments anterior to the time of Constantine, but they are isolated facts, and the documents are few, and rarely explicit. In researches into this period, conjecture has to play too large a part, and it is more profitable, therefore, to concentrate attention on a somewhat later date, where both trustworthy and abundant material is forthcoming.
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