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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
159
Nature,
35-36:
A
block
of
metal
found
in
coal,
in
Austria,
1885.
It
is
now
in
the
Salsburg
museum.
This
time
we
have
another
expression.
Usually
our
intermediatist
attack
upon
provincial
positivism
is:
Science,
in
its
attempted
positivism
takes
something
such
as
"true
meteoritic
material"
as
a
standard
of
judgment;
but
carbonaceous
matter,
except
for
its
relative
infrequency,
is
just
as
veritable
a
standard
of
judgment;
carbonaceous
matter
merges
away
into
such
a
variety
of
organic
substances,
that
all
standards
are
reduced
to
indistinguishability:
if,
then,
there
is
no
real
standard
against
us,
there
is
no
real
resistance
to
our
own
acceptances.
Now
our
intermediatism
is:
Science
takes
"true
meteoritic
material"
as
a
standard
of
admission;
but
now
we
have
an
instance
that
quite
as
truly
makes
"true
meteoritic
material"
a
standard
of
exclusion;
or,
then,
a
thing
that
denies
itself
is
no
real
resistance
to
our
own
acceptances--this
depending
upon
whether
we
have
a
datum
of
something
of
"true
meteoritic
material"
that
orthodoxy
can
never
accept
fell
from
the
sky.
We're
a
little
involved
here.
Our
own
acceptance
is
upon
a
carved,
geometric
thing
that,
if
found
in
a
very
old
deposit,
antedates
human
life,
except,
perhaps,
very
primitive
human
life,
as
an
indigenous
product
of
this
earth:
but
we're
quite
as
much
interested
in
the
dilemma
it
made
for
the
faithful.
It
is
of
"true
meteoritic
material."
L'Astronomie,
1887-114,
it
is
said
that,
though
so
geometric,
its
phenomena
so
characteristic
of
meteorites
exclude
the
idea
that
it
was
the
work
of
man.
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