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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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And
still,
and
for
regiments
to
come,
hypnosis
and
inertia
rule
us--
One
of
the
damnedest
of
our
data:
In
the
Scientific
American,
Sept.
10,
1910,
Charles
F.
Holder
writes:
"Many
years
ago,
a
strange
stone
resembling
a
meteorite,
fell
into
the
Valley
of
the
Yaqui,
Mexico,
and
the
sensational
story
went
from
one
end
to
the
other
of
the
country
that
a
stone
bearing
human
inscriptions
had
descended
to
the
earth."
The
bewildering
observation
here
is
Mr.
Holder's
assertion
that
this
stone
did
fall.
It
seems
to
me
that
he
must
mean
that
it
fell
by
dislodgment
from
a
mountainside
into
a
valley--but
we
shall
see
that
it
was
such
a
marked
stone
that
very
unlikely
would
it
have
been
unknown
to
dwellers
in
a
valley,
if
it
had
been
reposing
upon
a
mountainside
above
them.
It
may
have
been
carelessness:
intent
may
have
been
to
say
that
a
sensational
story
of
a
strange
stone
said
to
have
fallen,
etc.
This
stone
was
reported
by
Major
Frederick
Burnham,
of
the
British
Army.
Later
Major
Burnham
revisited
it,
and
Mr.
Holder
accompanied
him,
their
purpose
to
decipher
the
inscriptions
upon
it,
if
possible.
"This
stone
was
a
brown,
igneous
rock,
its
longest
axis
about
eight
feet,
and
on
the
eastern
face,
which
had
an
angle
of
about
forty-five
degrees,
was
the
deep-cut
inscription."
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