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a few lines. Bach word of the slowly-changing language, 

 more or less different in the successive chapters, may 

 represent the forms of life, which are intombed in our 

 consecutive formations, and which falsely appear to have 

 been abruptly introduced. On this view, the difficul- 

 ties above discussed are greatly diminished, or even 

 disappear. 



