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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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In
this
book,
I
assemble
some
of
the
data
that
I
think
are
of
the
falsely
and
arbitrarily
excluded.
The
data
of
the
damned.
I
have
gone
into
the
outer
darkness
of
scientific
and
philosophical
transactions
and
proceedings,
ultra-respectable,
but
covered
with
the
dust
of
disregard.
I
have
descended
into
journalism.
I
have
come
back
with
the
quasi-souls
of
lost
data.
They
will
march.
As
to
the
logic
of
our
expressions
to
come--
That
there
is
only
quasi-logic
in
our
mode
of
seeming:
That
nothing
ever
has
been
proved--
Because
there
is
nothing
to
prove.
When
I
say
that
there
is
nothing
to
prove,
I
mean
that
to
those
who
accept
Continuity,
or
the
merging
away
of
all
phenomena
into
other
phenomena,
without
positive
demarcations
one
from
another,
there
is,
in
a
positive
sense,
no
one
thing.
There
is
nothing
to
prove.
For
instance
nothing
can
be
proved
to
be
an
animal--because
animalness
and
vegetableness
are
not
positively
different.
There
are
some
expressions
of
life
that
are
as
much
vegetable
as
animal,
or
that
represent
the
merging
of
animalness
and
vegetableness.
There
is
then
no
positive
test,
standard,
criterion,
means
of
forming
an
opinion.
As
distinct
from
vegetables,
animals
do
not
exist.
There
is
nothing
to
prove.
Nothing
could
be
proved
to
be
good,
for
instance.
There
is
nothing
in
our
"existence"
that
is
good,
in
a
positive
sense,
or
as
really
outlined
from
evil.
If
to
forgive
be
good
in
times
of
peace,
it
is
evil
in
wartime.
There
is
nothing
to
prove:
good
in
our
experience
is
continuous
with,
or
is
only
another
aspect
of
evil.
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