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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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All
other
forces
have
phenomena
of
repulsion
and
of
inertness
irrespective
of
distance,
as
well
as
of
attraction.
But
Newtonian
Gravitation
admits
attraction
only:
Then
Newtonian
Gravitation
can
be
only
one-third
acceptable
even
to
the
orthodox,
or
there
is
denial
of
the
correlation
and
equivalence
of
forces.
Or
still
simpler:
Here
are
the
data.
Make
what
you
will,
yourself,
of
them.
In
our
Intermediatist
revolt
against
homogeneous,
or
positive,
explanations,
or
our
acceptance
that
the
all-sufficing
cannot
be
less
than
universality,
besides
which,
however,
there
would
be
nothing
to
suffice,
our
expression
upon
the
Super-Sargasso
Sea,
though
it
harmonizes
with
data
of
fishes
that
fall
as
if
from
a
stationary
source--and,
of
course,
with
other
data,
too--is
inadequate
to
account
for
two
peculiarities
of
the
falls
of
frogs:
That
never
has
a
fall
of
tadpoles
been
reported;
That
never
has
a
fall
of
full-grown
frogs
been
reported--
Always
frogs
a
few
months
old.
It
sounds
positive,
but
if
there
be
such
reports
they
are
somewhere
out
of
my
range
of
reading.
But
tadpoles
would
be
more
likely
to
fall
from
the
sky
than
would
frogs,
little
or
big,
if
such
falls
be
attributed
to
whirlwinds;
and
more
likely
to
fall
from
the
Super-Sargasso
Sea
if,
though
very
tentatively
and
provisionally,
we
accept
the
Super-Sargasso
Sea.
Before
we
take
up
an
especial
expression
upon
the
fall
of
immature
and
larval
forms
of
life
to
this
earth,
and
the
necessity
then
of
conceiving
of
some
factor
besides
mere
stationariness
or
suspension
or
stagnation,
there
are
other
data
that
are
similar
to
data
of
falls
of
fishes.
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