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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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So
Leverrier
and
the
"planet
Vulcan."
And
we
repeat,
and
it
will
do
us
small
good
to
repeat.
If
you
be
of
the
masses
that
the
astronomers
have
hypnotized--being
themselves
hypnotized,
or
they
could
not
hypnotize
others--or
that
the
hypnotist's
control
is
not
the
masterful
power
that
it
is
popularly
supposed
to
be,
but
only
transference
of
state
from
one
hypnotic
to
another--
If
you
be
of
the
masses
that
the
astronomers
have
hypnotized,
you
will
not
be
able
even
to
remember.
Ten
pages
from
here,
and
Leverrier
and
the
"planet
Vulcan"
will
have
fallen
from
your
mind,
like
beans
from
a
magnet,
or
like
data
of
cold
meteorites
from
the
mind
of
a
Thomson.
Leverrier
and
the
"planet
Vulcan."
And
much
the
good
it
will
do
us
to
repeat.
But
at
least
temporarily
we
shall
have
an
impression
of
a
historic
fiasco,
such
as,
in
our
acceptance,
could
occur
only
in
a
quasi-existence.
In
1859,
Dr.
Lescarbault,
an
amateur
astronomer,
of
Orgeres,
France,
announced
that,
upon
March
26,
of
that
year,
he
had
seen
a
body
of
planetary
size
cross
the
sun.
We
are
in
a
subject
that
is
now
as
unholy
to
the
present
system
as
ever
were
its
own
subjects
to
the
system
that
preceded
it,
or
as
ever
were
slanders
against
miracles
to
the
preceding
system.
Nevertheless
few
text-books
go
so
far
as
quite
to
disregard
this
tragedy.
The
method
of
the
systematists
is
slightingly
to
give
a
few
instances
of
the
unholy,
and
dispose
of
the
few.
If
it
were
desirable
to
them
to
deny
that
there
are
mountains
upon
this
earth,
they
would
record
a
few
observations
upon
some
slight
eminences
near
Orange,
N.J.,
but
say
that
commuters,
though
estimable
persons
in
several
ways,
are
likely
to
have
their
observations
mixed.
The
text-books
casually
mention
a
few
of
the
"supposed"
observations
upon
"Vulcan,"
and
then
pass
on.
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