CHAPTER IX.
CAUSES OF CORRUPTION CHIEFLY INTENTIONAL.
III.

Attraction.
Sec.

1.
There exist not a few corrupt Readings,--and they have imposed largely on many critics,--which, strange to relate, have arisen from nothing else but the proneness of words standing side by side in a sentence to be attracted into a likeness of ending,--whether in respect of grammatical form or of sound; whereby sometimes the sense is made to suffer grievously,--sometimes entirely to disappear.

Let this be called the error of Attraction.

The phenomena of 'Assimilation' are entirely distinct.