sub-subdivisions

Updated: July 7, 2026

While out of the one primitive class there come by progressive divergences many classes, each of these classes itself undergoes a kindred change: there are formed in it subdivisions and even sub-subdivisions, which become gradually more marked; so that, throughout, the advance is from an indefinite homogeneity to a definite heterogeneity.

- The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV