In English, "parole" is reduced to a word of honor and to giving a guarantee of one's future good behavior. In French, "parole" is a much more all-encompassing word by which a human society differentiates itself from animal society.
They are divided because they speak of the history of evolution theory: A rupture in the continuum of evolution is the mark of history.
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