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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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A
crystal
lens
had
been
found
in
the
treasure-house
at
Nineveh.
In
many
of
the
temples
and
treasure
houses
of
old
civilizations
upon
this
earth
have
been
preserved
things
that
have
fallen
from
the
sky--or
meteorites.
Again
we
have
a
Brahmin.
This
thing
is
buried
alive
in
the
heart
of
propriety:
it
is
in
the
British
Museum.
Carpenter,
in
The
Microscope
and
Its
Revelations,
gives
two
drawings
of
it.
Carpenter
argues
that
it
is
impossible
to
accept
that
optical
lenses
had
ever
been
made
by
the
ancients.
Never
occurred
to
him--someone
a
million
miles
or
so
up
in
the
air--looking
through
his
telescope--lens
drops
out.
This
does
not
appeal
to
Carpenter:
he
says
that
this
object
must
have
been
an
ornament.
According
to
Brewster,
it
was
not
an
ornament,
but
"a
true
optical
lens."
In
that
case,
in
ruins
of
an
old
civilization
upon
this
earth,
has
been
found
an
accursed
thing
that
was,
acceptably,
not
a
product
of
any
old
civilization
indigenous
to
this
earth.
10
Early
explorers
have
Florida
mixed
up
with
Newfoundland.
But
the
confusion
is
worse
than
that
still
earlier.
It
arises
from
simplicity.
Very
early
explorers
think
that
all
land
westward
is
one
land,
India:
awareness
of
other
lands
as
well
as
India
comes
as
a
slow
process.
I
do
not
now
think
of
things
arriving
upon
this
earth
from
some
especial
other
world.
That
was
my
notion
when
I
started
to
collect
our
data.
Or,
as
is
a
commonplace
of
observation,
all
intellection
begins
with
the
illusion
of
homogeneity.
It's
one
of
Spencer's
data:
we
see
homogeneousness
in
all
things
distant,
or
with
which
we
have
small
acquaintance.
Advance
from
the
relatively
homogeneous
to
the
relatively
heterogeneous
is
Spencerian
Philosophy--like
everything
else,
so-called:
not
that
it
was
really
Spencer's
discovery,
but
was
taken
from
von
Baer,
who,
in
turn,
was
continuous
with
preceding
evolutionary
speculation.
Our
own
expression
is
that
all
things
are
acting
to
advance
to
the
homogeneous,
or
are
trying
to
localize
Homogeneousness.
Homogeneousness
is
an
aspect
of
the
Universal,
wherein
it
is
a
state
that
does
not
merge
away
into
something
else.
We
regard
homogeneousness
as
an
aspect
of
positiveness,
but
it
is
our
acceptance
that
infinite
frustrations
of
attempts
to
positivize
manifest
themselves
in
infinite
heterogeneity:
so
that
though
things
try
to
localize
homogeneousness
they
end
up
in
heterogeneity
so
great
that
it
amounts
to
infinite
dispersion
or
indistinguishability.
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