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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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The
New
Dominant.
I
mean
"primarily"
all
that
opposes
Exclusionism--
That
Development
or
Progress
or
Evolution
is
Attempt
to
Positivize,
and
is
a
mechanism
by
which
a
positive
existence
is
recruited--that
what
we
call
existence
is
a
womb
of
infinitude,
and
is
itself
only
incubatory--that
eventually
all
attempts
are
broken
down
by
the
falsely
excluded.
Subjectively,
the
breaking
down
is
aided
by
our
own
sense
of
false
and
narrow
limitations.
So
the
classic
and
academic
artists
wrought
positivist
paintings,
and
expressed
the
only
ideal
that
I
am
conscious
of,
though
we
so
often
hear
of
"ideals"
instead
of
different
manifestations,
artistically,
scientifically,
theologically,
politically,
of
the
One
Ideal.
They
sought
to
satisfy,
in
its
artistic
aspect,
cosmic
craving
for
unity
or
completeness,
sometimes
called
harmony,
called
beauty
in
some
aspects.
By
disregard
they
sought
completeness.
But
the
light-effects
that
they
disregarded,
and
their
narrow
confinement
to
standardized
subjects
brought
on
the
revolt
of
the
Impressionists.
So
the
Puritans
tried
to
systematize,
and
they
disregarded
physical
needs,
or
vices,
or
relaxations:
they
were
invaded
and
overthrown
when
their
narrowness
became
obvious
and
intolerable.
All
things
strive
for
positiveness,
for
themselves,
or
for
quasi-systems
of
which
they
are
parts.
Formality
and
the
mathematic,
the
regular
and
the
uniform
are
aspects
of
the
positive
state--but
the
Positive
is
the
Universal--so
all
attempted
positiveness
that
seems
to
satisfy
in
the
aspects
of
formality
and
regularity,
sooner
or
later
disqualifies
in
the
aspect
of
wideness
or
universalness.
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