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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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But
single
instances--so
an
observation
by
Scott,
in
the
Antarctic.
The
force
of
this
datum
lies
in
my
own
acceptance,
based
upon
especially
looking
up
this
point,
that
an
eclipse
nine-tenths
of
totality
has
great
effect,
even
though
the
sky
be
clouded.
Scott
(Voyage
of
the
Discovery,
vol.
ii,
p.
215):
"There
may
have
been
an
eclipse
of
the
sun,
Sept.
21,
1903,
as
the
almanac
said,
but
we
should,
none
of
us,
have
liked
to
swear
to
the
fact."
This
eclipse
had
been
set
down
at
nine-tenths
of
totality.
The
sky
was
overcast
at
the
time.
So
it
is
not
only
that
many
eclipses
unrecognized
by
astronomers
as
eclipses
have
occurred,
but
that
intermediatism,
or
impositivism,
breaks
into
their
own
seemingly
regularized
eclipses.
Our
data
of
unregularized
eclipses,
as
profound
as
those
that
are
conventionally--or
officially?--recognized,
that
have
occurred
relatively
to
this
earth:
In
Notes
and
Queries
there
are
several
allusions
to
intense
darknesses
that
have
occurred
upon
this
earth,
quite
as
eclipses
occur,
but
that
are
not
referable
to
any
known
eclipsing
body.
Of
course
there
is
no
suggestion
here
that
these
darknesses
may
have
been
eclipses.
My
own
acceptance
is
that
if
in
the
nineteenth
century
anyone
had
uttered
such
a
thought
as
that,
he'd
have
felt
the
blight
of
a
Dominant;
that
Materialistic
Science
was
a
jealous
god,
excluding,
as
works
of
the
devil,
all
utterances
against
the
seemingly
uniform,
regular,
periodic;
that
to
defy
him
would
have
brought
on--withering
by
ridicule--shrinking
away
by
publishers--contempt
of
friends
and
family--justifiable
grounds
for
divorce--that
one
who
would
so
defy
would
feel
what
unbelievers
in
relics
of
saints
felt
in
an
earlier
age;
what
befell
virgins
who
forgot
to
keep
fires
burning,
in
a
still
earlier
age--but
that,
if
he'd
almost
absolutely
hold
out,
just
the
same--new
fixed
star
reported
in
Monthly
Notices.
Altogether,
the
point
in
Positivism
here
is
that
by
Dominants
and
their
correlates,
quasi-existence
strives
for
the
positive
state,
aggregating,
around
a
nucleus,
or
dominant,
systematized
members
of
a
religion,
a
science,
a
society--but
that
"individuals"
who
do
not
surrender
and
submerge
may
of
themselves
highly
approximate
to
positiveness--the
fixed,
the
real,
the
absolute.
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