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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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These
turls
and
these
bleats
of
pedantry--though
we
insist
that,
relatively
to
1882,
these
turls
and
bleats
should
be
regarded
as
respectfully
as
we
regard
rag
dolls
that
keep
infants
occupied
and
noiseless--it
is
the
survival
of
rag
dolls
into
maturity
that
we
object
to--so
these
pious
and
naive
ones
who
believed
that
13,000
times
something
could
have--that
is,
in
quasi-existence--an
exact
and
calculable
resultant,
whereas
there
is--in
quasi-existence--nothing
that
can,
except
by
delusion
and
convenience,
be
called
a
unit,
in
the
first
place--whose
devotions
to
St.
Isaac
required
blind
belief
in
formulas
of
falling
bodies--
Against
data
that
were
piling
up,
in
their
own
time,
of
slow-falling
meteorites;
"milk
warm"
ones
admitted
even
by
Farrington
and
Merrill;
at
least
one
icy
meteorite
nowhere
denied
by
the
present
orthodoxy,
a
datum
as
accessible
to
Thomson,
in
1882,
as
it
is
now
to
us,
because
it
was
an
occurrence
of
1860.
Beans
and
needles
and
tacks
and
a
magnet.
Needles
and
tacks
adhere
to
and
systematize
relatively
to
a
magnet,
but,
if
some
beans,
too,
be
caught
up,
they
are
irreconcilables
to
this
system
and
drop
right
out
of
it.
A
member
of
the
Salvation
Army
may
hear
over
and
over
data
that
seem
so
memorable
to
an
evolutionist.
It
seems
remarkable
that
they
do
not
influence
him--one
finds
that
he
cannot
remember
them.
It
is
incredible
that
Sir
William
Thomson
had
never
heard
of
slow-falling,
cold
meteorites.
It
is
simply
that
he
had
no
power
to
remember
such
irreconcilabilities.
And
then
Mr.
Symons
again.
Mr.
Symons
was
a
man
who
probably
did
more
for
the
science
of
meteorology
than
did
any
other
man
of
his
time:
therefore
he
probably
did
more
to
hold
back
the
science
of
meteorology
than
did
any
other
man
of
his
time.
In
Nature,
41-135,
Mr.
Symons
says
that
Prof.
Schwedoff's
ideas
are
"very
droll."
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