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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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But
some
of
us
peasants
have
gone
through
the
Report
of
the
British
Association,
1852.
Upon
page
239,
Dr.
Buist,
who
had
never
heard
of
the
Super-Sargasso
Sea,
says
that,
though
it
is
difficult
to
trace
connection
between
the
phenomena,
three
aerolites
had
fallen
in
five
months,
in
India,
during
thunderstorms,
in
1851
(may
have
been
1852).
For
accounts
by
witnesses,
see
page
229
of
the
Report.
Or--we
are
on
our
way
to
account
for
"thunderstones."
It
seems
to
me
that,
very
strikingly
here,
is
borne
out
the
general
acceptance
that
ours
is
only
an
intermediate
existence,
in
which
there
is
nothing
fundamental,
or
nothing
final
to
take
as
a
positive
standard
to
judge
by.
Peasants
believed
in
meteorites.
Scientists
excluded
meteorites.
Peasants
believe
in
"thunderstones."
Scientists
exclude
"thunderstones."
It
is
useless
to
argue
that
peasants
are
out
in
the
fields,
and
that
scientists
are
shut
up
in
laboratories
and
lecture
rooms.
We
cannot
take
for
a
real
base
that,
as
to
phenomena
with
which
they
are
more
familiar,
peasants
are
more
likely
to
be
right
than
are
scientists:
a
host
of
biologic
and
meteorologic
fallacies
of
peasants
rises
against
us.
I
should
say
that
our
"existence"
is
like
a
bridge--except
that
that
comparison
is
in
static
terms--but
like
the
Brooklyn
Bridge,
upon
which
multitudes
of
bugs
are
seeking
a
fundamental--coming
to
a
girder
that
seems
firm
and
final--but
the
girder
is
built
upon
supports.
A
support
then
seems
final.
But
it
is
built
upon
underlying
structures.
Nothing
final
can
be
found
in
all
the
bridge,
because
the
bridge
itself
is
not
a
final
thing
in
itself,
but
is
a
relationship
between
Manhattan
and
Brooklyn.
If
our
"existence"
is
a
relationship
between
the
Positive
Absolute
and
the
Negative
Absolute,
the
quest
for
finality
in
it
is
hopeless:
everything
in
it
must
be
relative,
if
the
"whole"
is
not
a
whole,
but
is,
itself,
a
relation.
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