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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Though
we
may
not
always
be
as
patient
toward
them
as
we
should
be,
it
is
our
acceptance
that
the
astronomic
primitives
have
done
a
great
deal
of
good
work:
for
instance,
in
the
allaying
of
fears
upon
this
earth.
Sometimes
it
may
seem
as
if
all
science
were
to
us
very
much
like
what
a
red
flag
is
to
bulls
and
anti-socialists.
It's
not
that:
it's
more
like
what
unsquare
meals
are
to
bulls
and
anti-socialists--not
the
scientific,
but
the
insufficient.
Our
acceptance
is
that
Evil
is
the
negative
state,
by
which
we
mean
the
state
of
maladjustment,
discord,
ugliness,
disorganization,
inconsistency,
injustice,
and
so
on--as
determined
in
Intermediateness,
not
by
real
standards,
but
only
by
higher
approximations
to
adjustment,
harmony,
beauty,
organization,
consistency,
justice,
and
so
on.
Evil
is
outlived
virtue,
or
incipient
virtue
that
has
not
yet
established
itself,
or
any
other
phenomenon
that
is
not
in
seeming
adjustment,
harmony,
consistency
with
a
dominant.
The
astronomers
have
functioned
bravely
in
the
past.
They've
been
good
for
business:
the
big
interests
think
kindly,
if
at
all,
of
them.
It's
bad
for
trade
to
have
an
intense
darkness
come
upon
an
unaware
community
and
frighten
people
out
of
their
purchasing
values.
But
if
an
obscuration
be
foretold,
and
if
it
then
occur--may
seem
a
little
uncanny--only
a
shadow--and
no
one
who
was
about
to
buy
a
pair
of
shoes
runs
home
panic-stricken
and
saves
the
money.
Upon
general
principles
we
accept
that
astronomers
have
quasi-systematized
data
of
eclipses--or
have
included
some
and
disregarded
others.
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