I'm not formally educated in grammar, but I'm finding this sentence bothersome. It comes from a book.
And now can one credit that the composition of these available elements has never chanced through all the past and present to result in a mixture similar to mine, one, moreover, if mine be regarded as unfortunate, more unfortunate still?
Are you sure that 'chanced' shouldn't be 'changed'.
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