":I think his objection was to ""continuing progression of events"" specifically, so I added a link to the ref we already had at the end of that sentence, which says ""continued progress of existence and events"". I think ""continu[ing] progress[ion] of [...] events"" is a close enough phrasing to that for that reference to back it. The reference formatting for this lede will really need to be cleaned up once we've got the substance of it all sorted out.   

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