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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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Or
the
footprints,
in
sandstone,
near
Carson,
Nevada--each
print
18
to
20
inches
long.
(Amer.
Jour.
Sci.,
3-26-139.)
These
footprints
are
very
clear
and
well-defined:
reproduction
of
them
in
the
Journal--but
they
assimilate
with
the
System,
like
sour
apples
to
other
systems:
so
Prof.
Marsh,
a
loyal
and
unscrupulous
systematist,
argues:
"The
size
of
these
footprints
and
specially
the
width
between
the
right
and
left
series,
are
strong
evidence
that
they
were
not
made
by
men,
as
has
been
so
generally
supposed."
So
these
excluders.
Stranglers
of
Minerva.
Desperadoes
of
disregard.
Above
all,
or
below
all,
the
anthropologists.
I'm
inspired
with
a
new
insult--someone
offends
me:
I
wish
to
express
almost
absolute
contempt
for
him--he's
a
systematistic
anthropologist.
Simply
to
read
something
of
this
kind
is
not
so
impressive
as
to
see
for
one's
self:
if
anyone
will
take
the
trouble
to
look
up
these
footprints,
as
pictured
in
the
Journal,
he
will
either
agree
with
Prof.
Marsh
or
feel
that
to
deny
them
is
to
indicate
a
mind
as
profoundly
enslaved
by
a
system
as
was
ever
the
humble
intellect
of
a
medieval
monk.
The
reasoning
of
this
representative
phantom
of
the
chosen,
or
of
the
spectral
appearances
who
sit
in
judgment,
or
condemnation,
upon
us
of
the
more
nearly
real:
That
there
never
were
giants
upon
this
earth,
because
gigantic
footprints
are
more
gigantic
than
prints
made
by
men
who
are
not
giants.
We
think
of
giants
as
occasional
visitors
to
this
earth.
Of
course--Stonehenge,
for
instance.
It
may
be
that,
as
time
goes
on,
we
shall
have
to
admit
that
there
are
remains
of
many
tremendous
habitations
of
giants
upon
this
earth,
and
that
their
appearances
here
were
more
than
casual--but
their
bones--or
the
absence
of
their
bones--
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