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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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But
he
placed
the
time
of
best
observation
away
up
in
1877.
But
even
so,
or
considering
that
he
still
had
probably
a
good
many
years
to
live,
it
may
strike
one
that
he
was
a
little
rash--that
is
if
one
has
not
gone
very
deep
into
the
study
of
hypnoses--that,
having
"discovered"
Neptune
by
a
method
which,
in
our
acceptance,
had
no
more
to
recommend
it
than
had
once
equally
well-thought-of
methods
of
witch-finding,
he
should
not
have
taken
such
chances:
that
if
he
was
right
as
to
Neptune,
but
should
be
wrong
as
to
"Vulcan,"
his
average
would
be
away
below
that
of
most
fortune-tellers,
who
could
scarcely
hope
to
do
business
upon
a
fifty
per
cent.
basis--all
that
the
reasoning
of
a
tyro
in
hypnoses.
The
date:
March
22,
1877.
The
scientific
world
was
up
on
its
hind
legs
nosing
the
sky.
The
thing
had
been
done
so
authoritatively.
Never
a
pope
had
said
a
thing
with
more
of
the
seeming
of
finality.
If
six
observations
correlated,
what
more
could
be
asked?
The
Editor
of
Nature,
a
week
before
the
predicted
event,
though
cautious,
said
that
it
is
difficult
to
explain
how
six
observers,
unknown
to
one
another,
could
have
data
that
could
be
formulated,
if
they
were
not
related
phenomena.
In
a
way,
at
this
point
occurs
the
crisis
of
our
whole
book.
Formulas
are
against
us.
But
can
astronomic
formulas,
backed
up
by
observations
in
agreement,
taken
many
years
apart,
calculated
by
a
Leverrier,
be
as
meaningless,
in
a
positive
sense,
as
all
other
quasi-things
that
we
have
encountered
so
far?
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