Directions: In the following question, some statements have been provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. But in this, as in other sciences, when the truth has been reached it can generally be presented in a comparatively simple form, and the main positions can be justified even to the general reader by methods much less complicated, and much more lucid, than those originally followed by the investigators themselves. B. Historical criticism is a comparatively modern science, and in its application to this, as to other histories, it has made many false and uncertain steps. C. The process of disentangling the twisted skein of tradition is necessarily a very delicate and complicated one, and involves certain operations for which special scholarship is indispensable. D. The modern view has been reached by a mass of investigations and discussions of which no satisfactory general account has ever been laid before the English reader.