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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 764 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALTERNATION (from See also:Lat. alternare, to do by turns) , strictly, the See also:process of " alternating," i.e. of two things following one another regularly by turns, as See also:night alternates with See also:day. A somewhat different sense is attached to some usages of the derivatives. Thus, in See also:American See also:political representative bodies and in the See also:case of See also:company See also:directors, a substitute is sometimes called an " alternate." An " alternative " is that which is offered as a choice of two things, the See also:acceptance of the one implying the rejection of the other. It is incorrect to speak of more than two alternatives, though Mr See also:Gladstone wrote in 1857 of a See also:fourth (Oxf. Essays, 26). When there is only one course open there is said to be no alternative.

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