This soothing dose was repeated in the fourth and fifth
editions. In 1824 appeared a supplement to the fourth, fifth, and
sixth editions, which dealt with the facts so far as they were
known; but there was scarcely a reference to the biblical theory
throughout the article. Three years later came another
supplement. While this chaos was fast becoming cosmos in Germany,
such a change had evidently not gone far in England, for from
this edition of the _Encyclopaedia_ the subject of philology was
omitted. In fact, Babel and Philology made nearly as much trouble
to encyclopedists as Noah's Deluge and Geology. Just as in the
latter case they had been obliged to stave off a presentation of
scientific truth, by the words "For Deluge, see Flood" and "For
Flood, see Noah," so in the former they were obliged to take
various provisional measures, some of them comical. In 1842 came
the seventh edition. In this the first part of the old article on
Philology which had appeared in the third, fourth, and fifth
editions was printed, but the supernatural part was mainly cut
out.
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