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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
187
A
thing.
It
is
attractive
or
repulsive.
Its
conventional
reaction
follows.
Because
it
is
not
the
stone
from
Grave
Creek
that
is
in
Hebrew
characters,
either
ancient
or
modern:
it
is
a
stone
from
Newark,
Ohio,
of
which
the
story
is
told
that
a
forger
made
this
mistake
of
using
modern
instead
of
ancient
Hebrew
characters.
We
shall
see
that
the
inscription
upon
the
Grave
Creek
stone
is
not
in
Hebrew.
Or
all
things
are
presumed
to
be
innocent,
but
are
supposed
to
be
guilty--unless
they
assimilate.
Col.
Whittelsey
(Western
Reserve
Historical
Tracts,
No.
33)
says
that
the
Grave
Creek
stone
was
considered
a
fraud
by
Wilson,
Squires,
and
Davis.
Then
he
comes
to
the
Congress
of
Archaeologists
at
Nancy,
France,
1875.
It
is
hard
for
Col.
Whittelsey
to
admit
that,
at
this
meeting,
which
sounds
important,
the
stone
was
endorsed.
He
reminds
us
of
Mr.
Symons,
and
"the
man"
who
"considered"
that
he
saw
something.
Col.
Whittelsey's
somewhat
tortuous
expression
is
that
the
finder
of
the
stone
"so
imposed
his
views"
upon
the
congress
that
it
pronounced
the
stone
genuine.
Also
the
stone
was
examined
by
Schoolcraft.
He
gave
his
opinion
for
genuineness.
Or
there's
only
one
process,
and
"see-saw"
is
one
of
its
aspects.
Three
or
four
fat
experts
on
the
side
against
us.
We
find
four
or
five
plump
ones
on
our
side.
Or
all
that
we
call
logic
and
reasoning
ends
up
as
sheer
preponderance
of
avoirdupois.
Then
several
philologists
came
out
in
favor
of
genuineness.
Some
of
them
translated
the
inscription.
Of
course,
as
we
have
said,
it
is
our
method--or
the
method
of
orthodoxy--way
in
which
all
conclusions
are
reached--to
have
some
awfully
eminent,
or
preponderantly
plump,
authorities
with
us
whenever
we
can--in
this
case,
however,
we
feel
just
a
little
apprehensive
in
being
caught
in
such
excellently
obese,
but
somewhat
negativized,
company:
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