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51.	(b) or descent of nine from the tenth is ascertained;	40
52.	(c) or descent of the nine from one lost MS is ascertained;	41
53.	(d) or descent of some of the nine from one lost MS and of the rest from another is ascertained	42
B. 54—57. Genealogy and number		43—46
54.	The authority of number indeterminate apart from genealogy	43
55.	Confusion between documents and votes the only ground for the supposed authority of mere number;	43
56.	except so far as extreme paucity of documents may introduce the chance of accidental coincidence in error	45
57.	Variability of multiplication and preservation renders rival probabilities derived solely from relative number incommensurable	45
C. 58, 59. Manner of discovering genealogy		46, 47
58.	Identity of origin inferred from identity of reading	46
59.	Successive steps of divergent genealogy shown by subordination of arrays of documents having identical readings	46
D 60—65. Complications of genealogy by mixture		47—52
60.	Detection of mixture by cross combinations of documents	47
61.	Deceptive comprehensiveness of attestation given by mixture to readings originally of narrow range	48
62.	Mode of disentangling texts antecedent to mixture by means of conflate readings;	49
63.	the attestations of which interpret the attestations of many variations containing no conflate reading	51
64.	Inherent imperfections of this process;	52
65.	and its frequent inapplicability for want of sufficient evidence antecedent to mixture	52
E. 66—72. Applications of genealogy		53—57
66.	Summary neglect of readings found only in documents exclusively descended from another extant document	53
67-69.	Process of recovering the text of lost document from its extant descendants; and its various steps;	53
70.	ending in the rejection and in the ratification of many readings	55
71.	Two uncertainties attending this process; one occasional, due to mixture with a text extraneous to the line of descent;	56
72.	the other inherent, the irrelevance of genealogical evidence in ultimate independent divergences from a common original	56
F. 73—76. Variable use of genealogy according to unequal preservation of documents		57—59
73.	Where extant genealogy diverges from a late point, the removal of the later corruptions often easy, while the earlier remain undiscovered	57
74.	Detection of earlier corruptions rendered possible by preservation of some ancient documents, but the application of the process always imperfect for want of sufficient documents	58