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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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There
are
so
many
instances
that
some
of
us
will
revolt
against
the
insistence
of
the
faithful
that
it
is
only
coincidence,
and
accept
that
there
is
connection
of
the
kind
called
causal.
If
it
is
too
difficult
to
think
of
stones
and
metallic
masses
swerved
from
their
courses
by
storms,
if
they
move
at
high
velocity,
we
think
of
low
velocity,
or
of
things
having
no
velocity
at
all,
hovering
a
few
miles
above
this
earth,
dislodged
by
storms,
and
falling
luminously.
But
the
resistance
is
so
great
here,
and
"coincidence"
so
insisted
upon
that
we'd
better
have
some
more
instances:
Aerolite
in
a
storm
at
St.
Leonards-on-sea,
England,
Sept.
17,
1885--no
trace
of
it
found
(Annual
Register,
1885);
meteorite
in
a
gale,
March
1,
1886,
described
in
the
Monthly
Weather
Review,
March,
1886;
meteorite
in
a
thunderstorm,
off
coast
of
Greece,
Nov.
19,
1899
(Nature,
61-111);
fall
of
a
meteorite
in
a
storm,
July
7,
1883,
near
Lachine,
Quebec
(Monthly
Weather
Review,
July,
1883);
same
phenomenon
noted
in
Nature,
28-319;
meteorite
in
a
whirlwind,
Sweden,
Sept.
24,
1883
(Nature,
29-15).
London
Roy.
Soc.
Proc.,
6-276:
A
triangular
cloud
that
appeared
in
a
storm,
Dec.
17,
1852;
a
red
nucleus,
about
half
the
apparent
diameter
of
the
moon,
and
a
long
tail;
visible
13
minutes;
explosion
of
the
nucleus.
Nevertheless,
in
Science
Gossip,
n.s.,
6-65,
it
is
said
that,
though
meteorites
have
fallen
in
storms,
no
connection
is
supposed
to
exist
between
the
two
phenomena,
except
by
the
ignorant
peasantry.
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