been preserved; and of each page, only here and there a few lines. Each word of the slowly-changing
language, | language, 1859 1860 1861 1869 1872 | | language 1866 |
in which the history is supposed to be written, being | in which the history is supposed to be written, being 1859 1860 |
| in which the history is written, being 1861 |
| being 1866 |
| OMIT 1869 1872 |
more or less different in the
interrupted | interrupted 1859 1860 | interrupted 1861 1866 1869 1872 |
succession | succession 1859 1860 | | successive 1861 1866 1869 1872 |
of | of 1859 1860 | of 1861 1866 1869 1872 |
chapters, may represent the
apparently abruptly changed | apparently abruptly changed 1859 1860 1861 |
| OMIT 1866 1869 1872 |
forms of life,
entombed | entombed 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
| which are entombed 1869 1872 |
in our
consecutive, | consecutive, 1859 1860 1861 | | consecutive 1866 1869 1872 |
but widely separated formations. | but widely separated formations. 1859 |
| but widely separated, formations. 1860 1861 |
| but widely separated formations, which falsely appear to have been abruptly transformed. 1866 |
| formations, and which falsely appear to us to have been abruptly introduced. 1869 1872 |
On this view, the difficulties above discussed are greatly diminished, or even disappear.
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