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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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It's
as
commendable
as
anything
ever
has
been--by
which
I
mean
it's
intermediate
to
the
commendable
and
the
censurable.
It's
virginal.
Meteorites,
data
of
which
were
once
of
the
damned,
have
been
admitted,
but
the
common
impression
of
them
is
only
a
retreat
of
attempted
exclusion:
that
only
two
kinds
of
substance
fall
from
the
sky:
metallic
and
stony:
that
the
metallic
objects
are
of
iron
and
nickel--
Butter
and
paper
and
wool
and
silk
and
resin.
We
see,
to
start
with,
that
the
virgins
of
science
have
fought
and
wept
and
screamed
against
external
relations--upon
two
grounds:
There
in
the
first
place;
Or
up
from
one
part
of
this
earth's
surface
and
down
to
another.
As
late
as
November,
1902,
in
Nature
Notes,
13-231,
a
member
of
the
Selborne
Society
still
argued
that
meteorites
do
not
fall
from
the
sky;
that
they
are
masses
of
iron
upon
the
ground
"in
the
first
place,"
that
attract
lightning;
that
the
lightning
is
seen,
and
is
mistaken
for
a
falling,
luminous
object--
By
progress
we
mean
rape.
Butter
and
beef
and
blood
and
a
stone
with
strange
inscriptions
upon
it.
3
So
then,
it
is
our
expression
that
Science
relates
to
real
knowledge
no
more
than
does
the
growth
of
a
plant,
or
the
organization
of
a
department
store,
or
the
development
of
a
nation:
that
all
are
assimilative,
or
organizing,
or
systematizing
processes
that
represent
different
attempts
to
attain
the
positive
state--the
state
commonly
called
heaven,
I
suppose
I
mean.
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