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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Or
a
Lost
Expedition
from--Somewhere.
Explorers
from
somewhere,
and
their
inability
to
return--then,
a
long,
sentimental,
persistent
attempt,
in
the
spirit
of
our
own
Arctic
relief-expeditions--at
least
to
establish
communication--
What
if
it
may
have
succeeded?
We
think
of
India--the
millions
of
natives
who
are
ruled
by
a
small
band
of
esoterics--only
because
they
receive
support
and
direction
from--somewhere
else--or
from
England.
In
1838,
Mr.
A.B.
Tomlinson,
owner
of
the
great
mound
at
Grave
Creek,
West
Virginia,
excavated
the
mound.
He
said
that,
in
the
presence
of
witnesses,
he
had
found
a
small,
flat,
oval
stone--or
disk--upon
which
were
engraved
alphabetic
characters.
Col.
Whittelsey,
an
expert
in
these
matters,
says
that
the
stone
is
now
"universally
regarded
by
archaeologists
as
a
fraud":
that,
in
his
opinion,
Mr.
Tomlinson
had
been
imposed
upon.
Avebury,
Prehistoric
Times,
p.
271:
"I
mention
it
because
it
has
been
the
subject
of
much
discussion,
but
it
is
now
generally
admitted
to
be
a
fraud.
It
is
inscribed
with
Hebrew
characters,
but
the
forger
has
copied
the
modern
instead
of
the
ancient
form
of
the
letters."
As
I
have
said,
we're
as
irritable
here,
under
the
oppressions
of
the
anthropologists
as
ever
were
slaves
in
the
south
toward
superiorities
from
"poor
white
trash."
When
we
finally
reverse
our
relative
positions
we
shall
give
lowest
place
to
the
anthropologists.
A
Dr.
Gray
does
at
least
look
at
a
fish
before
he
conceives
of
a
miraculous
origin
for
it.
We
shall
have
to
submerge
Lord
Avebury
far
below
him--if
we
accept
that
the
stone
from
Grave
Creek
is
generally
regarded
as
a
fraud
by
eminent
authorities
who
did
not
know
it
from
some
other
object--or,
in
general,
that
so
decided
an
opinion
must
be
the
product
of
either
deliberate
disregard
or
ignorance
or
fatigue.
The
stone
belongs
to
a
class
of
phenomena
that
is
repulsive
to
the
System.
It
will
not
assimilate
with
the
System.
Let
such
an
object
be
heard
of
by
such
a
systematist
as
Avebury,
and
the
mere
mention
of
it
is
as
nearly
certainly
the
stimulus
to
a
conventional
reaction
as
is
a
charged
body
to
an
electroscope
or
a
glass
of
beer
to
a
prohibitionist.
It
is
of
the
ideals
of
Science
to
know
one
object
from
another
before
expressing
an
opinion
upon
a
thing,
but
that
is
not
the
spirit
of
universal
mechanics:
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