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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
163
Although
its
caste
is
high,
this
is
a
thing
profoundly
of
the
damned--sort
of
a
Brahmin
as
regarded
by
a
Baptist.
Its
case
was
stated
fairly;
Brewster
related
all
circumstances
available
to
him--but
there
was
no
discussion
at
the
meeting
of
the
British
Association:
no
explanation
was
offered--
Nevertheless
the
thing
can
be
nullified--
But
the
nullification
that
we
find
is
as
much
against
orthodoxy
in
one
respect
as
it
is
against
our
own
expression
that
inclusion
in
quartz
or
sandstone
indicates
antiquity--or
there
would
have
to
be
a
revision
of
prevailing
dogmas
upon
quartz
and
sandstone
and
age
indicated
by
them,
if
the
opposing
data
should
be
accepted.
Of
course
it
may
be
contended
by
both
the
orthodox
and
us
heretics
that
the
opposition
is
only
a
yarn
from
a
newspaper.
By
an
odd
combination,
we
find
our
two
lost
souls
that
have
tried
to
emerge,
chucked
back
to
perdition
by
one
blow:
Pop.
Sci.
News,
1884-41:
That,
according
to
the
Carson
Appeal,
there
had
been
found
in
a
mine,
quartz
crystals
that
could
have
had
only
15
years
in
which
to
form:
that,
where
a
mill
had
been
built,
sandstone
had
been
found,
when
the
mill
was
torn
down,
that
had
hardened
in
12
years:
that
in
this
sandstone
was
a
piece
of
wood
"with
a
nail
in
it."
Annals
of
Scientific
Discovery,
1853-71:
That,
at
the
meeting
of
the
British
Association,
1853,
Sir
David
Brewster
had
announced
that
he
had
to
bring
before
the
meeting
an
object
"of
so
incredible
a
nature
that
nothing
short
of
the
strongest
evidence
was
necessary
to
render
the
statement
at
all
probable."
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