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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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The
fittest
survive.
What
is
meant
by
the
fittest?
Not
the
strongest;
not
the
cleverest--
Weakness
and
stupidity
everywhere
survive.
There
is
no
way
of
determining
fitness
except
in
that
a
thing
does
survive.
"Fitness,"
then,
is
only
another
name
for
"survival."
Darwinism:
That
survivors
survive.
Although
Darwinism,
then,
seems
positively
baseless,
or
absolutely
irrational,
its
massing
of
supposed
data,
and
its
attempted
coherence
approximate
more
highly
to
Organization
and
Consistency
than
did
the
inchoate
speculations
that
preceded
it.
Or
that
Columbus
never
proved
that
the
earth
is
round.
Shadow
of
the
earth
on
the
moon?
No
one
has
ever
seen
it
in
its
entirety.
The
earth's
shadow
is
much
larger
than
the
moon.
If
the
periphery
of
the
shadow
is
curved--but
the
convex
moon--a
straight-edged
object
will
cast
a
curved
shadow
upon
a
surface
that
is
convex.
All
the
other
so-called
proofs
may
be
taken
up
in
the
same
way.
It
was
impossible
for
Columbus
to
prove
that
the
earth
is
round.
It
was
not
required:
only
that
with
a
higher
seeming
of
positiveness
than
that
of
his
opponents,
he
should
attempt.
The
thing
to
do,
in
1492,
was
nevertheless
to
accept
that
beyond
Europe,
to
the
west,
were
other
lands.
I
offer
for
acceptance,
as
something
concordant
with
the
spirit
of
this
first
quarter
of
the
20th
century,
the
expression
that
beyond
this
earth
are--other
lands--from
which
come
things
as,
from
America,
float
things
to
Europe.
As
to
yellow
substances
that
have
fallen
upon
this
earth,
the
endeavor
to
exclude
extra-mundane
origins
is
the
dogma
that
all
yellow
rains
and
yellow
snows
are
colored
with
pollen
from
this
earth's
pine
trees.
Symons'
Meteorological
Magazine
is
especially
prudish
in
this
respect
and
regards
as
highly
improper
all
advances
made
by
other
explainers.
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