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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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As
to
the
deposit--Tertiary
coal.
Composition--iron,
carbon,
and
a
small
quantity
of
nickel.
It
has
the
pitted
surface
that
is
supposed
by
the
faithful
to
be
characteristic
of
meteorites.
For
a
full
account
of
this
subject,
see
Comptes
Rendus,
103-702.
The
scientists
who
examined
it
could
reach
no
agreement.
They
bifurcated:
then
a
compromise
was
suggested;
but
the
compromise
is
a
product
of
disregard:
That
it
was
of
true
meteoritic
material,
and
had
not
been
shaped
by
man;
That
it
was
not
of
true
meteoritic
material,
but
telluric
iron
that
had
been
shaped
by
man:
That
it
was
true
meteoritic
material
that
had
fallen
from
the
sky,
but
had
been
shaped
by
man,
after
its
fall.
The
data,
one
or
more
of
which
must
be
disregarded
by
each
of
these
three
explanations,
are:
"true
meteoritic
material"
and
surface
markings
of
meteorites;
geometric
form;
presence
in
an
ancient
deposit;
material
as
hard
as
steel;
absence
upon
this
earth,
in
Tertiary
times,
of
men
who
could
work
in
material
as
hard
as
steel.
It
is
said
that,
though
of
"true
meteoritic
material,"
this
object
is
virtually
a
steel
object.
St.
Augustine,
with
his
orthodoxy,
was
never
in--well,
very
much
worse--difficulties
than
are
the
faithful
here.
By
due
disregard
of
a
datum
or
so,
our
own
acceptance
that
it
was
a
steel
object
that
had
fallen
from
the
sky
to
this
earth,
in
Tertiary
times,
is
not
forced
upon
one.
We
offer
ours
as
the
only
synthetic
expression.
For
instance,
in
Science
Gossip,
1887-58,
it
is
described
as
a
meteorite:
in
this
account
there
is
nothing
alarming
to
the
pious,
because,
though
everything
else
is
told,
its
geometric
form
is
not
mentioned.
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