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CONTENTS OF INTRODUCTION
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| PAR. | PAGES | |
| 34. | Fallacious antagonisms due to difference of mental conditions between scribes and modern readers | 27 |
| 35. | Contrast of cursory criticism of scribes and deliberate criticism of editors: real excellence of readings often perceptible only after close study | 28 |
| 36. | Ulterior value of readings that are attested by Intrinsic and Transcriptional Probability alike | 29 |
| 37. | Insufficiency of Internal Evidence of Readings proved by the numerous variations which contain no readings so attested | 29 |
| Section II. Internal Evidence of Documents (38—48) | 30—39 | |
| 38. | Transition from immediate decisions upon readings to examination of the antecedent credibility of the witnesses for them. (Knowledge of documents should precede final judgement upon readings.) | 30 |
| 39. | Presumptions, but not more, furnished by relative date | 31 |
| 40. | The prevailing textual character of documents, as learned from readings in which Internal Evidence is decisive, a guide to their character in other readings | 32 |
| 41. | A threefold process here involved; (1) provisional decision or suspense on readings; (2) estimate of documents by this standard; and (3) final decision (or suspense) on readings on comparison of all evidence | 33 |
| 42. | Relative weight of documentary authority variable | 34 |
| 43. | Greater security given by the combined judgements of Internal Evidence of Documents than by the isolated judgements of Internal Evidence of Readings | 34 |
| 44. | Uncertainties of Internal Evidence of Documents due to the variously imperfect homogeneousness of texts; as shown in | 35 |
| 45. | (a) concurrence of excellence of one kind and corruptness of another kind in the same document; | 36 |
| 46. | (b) derivation of different books within the same document from different exemplars; | 37 |
| 47. | (c) simultaneous derivation of different elements of text in the same document from different exemplars (Mixture) | 38 |
| 48. | Moreover Internal Evidence of Documents difficult to apply in texts preserved in a plurality of documents wherever there is a cross division of authority | 38 |
| Section III. Genealogical Evidence (49—76) | 39—59 | |
| A. 49—53. | Simple or divergent genealogy | 39—42 |
| 49. | Transition from character of individual documents to genealogical affinities between documents. (All trustworthy restoration of corrupted texts is founded on the study of their history) | 39 |
| 50. | Variable relation of each of ten MSS to the rest according as (a) the genealogy is unknown; | 40 |
