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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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But
the
climax
of
hardihood
or
impropriety
or
wickedness,
preposterousness
or
enlightenment:
"One
could
hardly
resist
the
conviction
that
it
was
a
shadow,
yet
it
could
not
be
the
shadow
of
any
known
body."
Richard
Proctor
was
a
man
of
some
liberality.
After
a
while
we
shall
have
a
letter,
which
once
upon
a
time
we'd
have
called
delirious--don't
know
that
we
could
read
such
a
thing
now,
for
the
first
time,
without
incredulous
laughter--which
Mr.
Proctor
permitted
to
be
published
in
Knowledge.
But
a
dark,
unknown
world
that
could
cast
a
shadow
upon
a
large
part
of
the
moon,
perhaps
extending
far
beyond
the
limb
of
the
moon;
a
shadow
as
deep
as
the
shadow
of
this
earth--
Too
much
for
Mr.
Proctor's
politeness.
I
haven't
read
what
he
said,
but
it
seems
to
have
been
a
little
coarse.
Russell
says
that
Proctor
"freely
used"
his
name
in
the
Echo,
of
March
14,
1879,
ridiculing
this
observation
which
had
been
made
by
Russell
as
well
as
Hirst.
If
it
hadn't
been
Proctor,
it
would
have
been
someone
else--but
one
notes
that
the
attack
came
out
in
a
newspaper.
There
is
no
discussion
of
this
remarkable
subject,
no
mention
in
any
other
astronomic
journal.
The
disregard
was
almost
complete--but
we
do
note
that
the
columns
of
the
Observatory
were
open
to
Russell
to
answer
Proctor.
In
the
answer,
I
note
considerable
intermediateness.
Far
back
in
1879,
it
would
have
been
a
beautiful
positivism,
if
Russell
had
said--
"There
was
a
shadow
on
the
moon.
Absolutely
it
was
cast
by
an
unknown
body."
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