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where the Manuscript must have been in a
bad state. Now I can show strong reason for thinking
that Aristotle wrote on sheets of papyrus of a
certain size and endeavored to crowd a chapter
into a sheet without going over to another
sheet, when he was near the end of it; and
in that way, that the sheet the 23rd chapter
was written on was the last but two, and
could hardly be injured without those others
being injured in corresponding places. The
corresponding place on the next sheet is
the very place where I suppose another
wrong word was substituted. But, however
that may be, I feel quite sure that when
Aristotle penned the first words of his 25th