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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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But
that,
in
their
eras
of
dominance,
they
were
almost
as
firmly
believed
in
as
if
they
had
been
proved.
Enormities
and
preposterousnesses
will
march.
They
will
be
"proved"
as
well
as
Moses
or
Darwin
or
Lyell
ever
"proved"
anything.
We
substitute
acceptance
for
belief.
Cells
of
an
embryo
take
on
different
appearances
in
different
eras.
The
more
firmly
established,
the
more
difficult
to
change.
That
social
organism
is
embryonic.
That
firmly
to
believe
is
to
impede
development.
That
only
temporarily
to
accept
is
to
facilitate.
But:
Except
that
we
substitute
acceptance
for
belief,
our
methods
will
be
the
conventional
methods;
the
means
by
which
every
belief
has
been
formulated
and
supported:
or
our
methods
will
be
the
methods
of
theologians
and
savages
and
scientists
and
children.
Because,
if
all
phenomena
are
continuous,
there
can
be
no
positively
different
methods.
By
the
inconclusive
means
and
methods
of
cardinals
and
fortune
tellers
and
evolutionists
and
peasants,
methods
which
must
be
inconclusive,
if
they
relate
always
to
the
local,
and
if
there
is
nothing
local
to
conclude,
we
shall
write
this
book.
If
it
function
as
an
expression
of
its
era,
it
will
prevail.
All
sciences
begin
with
attempts
to
define.
Nothing
ever
has
been
defined.
Because
there
is
nothing
to
define.
Darwin
wrote
The
Origin
of
Species.
He
was
never
able
to
tell
what
he
meant
by
a
"species."
It
is
not
possible
to
define.
Nothing
has
ever
been
finally
found
out.
Because
there
is
nothing
final
to
find
out.
It's
like
looking
for
a
needle
that
no
one
ever
lost
in
a
haystack
that
never
was--
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