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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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That
the
tablet
was
probably
of
Mormon
origin.
Why?
Because,
at
Mendon,
Ill.,
was
found
a
brass
plate,
upon
which
were
similar
characters.
Why
that?
Because
that
was
found
"near
a
house
once
occupied
by
a
Mormon."
In
a
real
existence,
a
real
meteorologist,
suspecting
that
cinders
had
come
from
a
fire
engine--would
have
asked
a
fireman.
Tablets
of
Davenport--there's
not
a
record
findable
that
it
ever
occurred
to
any
antiquarian--to
ask
a
Mormon.
Other
tablets
were
found.
Upon
one
of
them
are
two
"F's"
and
two
"8's."
Also
a
large
tablet,
twelve
inches
by
eight
to
ten
inches
"with
Roman
numerals
and
Arabic."
It
is
said
that
the
figure
"8"
occurs
three
times,
and
the
figure
or
letter
"O"
seven
times.
"With
these
familiar
characters
are
others
that
resemble
ancient
alphabets,
either
Phoenecian
or
Hebrew."
It
may
be
that
the
discovery
of
Australia,
for
instance,
will
turn
out
to
be
less
important
than
the
discovery
and
the
meaning
of
these
tablets--
But
where
will
you
read
of
them
in
anything
subsequently
published;
what
antiquarian
has
ever
since
tried
to
understand
them,
and
their
presence,
and
indications
of
antiquity,
in
a
land
that
we're
told
was
inhabited
only
by
unlettered
savages?
These
things
that
are
exhumed
only
to
be
buried
in
some
other
way.
Another
tablet
was
found,
at
Davenport,
by
Mr.
Charles
Harrison,
president
of
the
American
Antiquarian
Society.
"...
8
and
other
hieroglyphics
are
upon
this
tablet."
This
time,
also,
fraud
is
not
mentioned.
My
own
notion
is
that
it
is
very
unsportsmanlike
ever
to
mention
fraud.
Accept
anything.
Then
explain
it
your
way.
Anything
that
assimilates
with
one
explanation,
must
have
assimilable
relations,
to
some
degree,
with
all
other
explanations,
if
all
explanations
are
somewhere
continuous.
Mormons
are
lugged
in
again,
but
the
attempt
is
faint
and
helpless--"because
general
circumstances
make
it
difficult
to
explain
the
presence
of
these
tablets."
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