Sentences with phrase «though lines of distinction»

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In order to make some advance in the obscurity and complexity of the question, and to provide a guiding line for our reflections, a distinction must first be drawn, even though we can not but realize that the two poles of the distinction are linked by manifold connections of the most complicated kind.

And even evolutionary theory continues to rely upon the hierarchical distinctions of levels, though it envisages them as stages in a horizontally linear movement with the lines of demarcation somewhat blurred.