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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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In
our
acceptance,
Dominants,
in
their
succession,
displace
preceding
Dominants
not
only
because
they
are
more
nearly
positive,
but
because
the
old
Dominants,
as
recruiting
mediums,
play
out.
Our
expression
is
that
the
New
Dominant,
of
Wider
Inclusions,
is
now
manifesting
throughout
the
world,
and
that
the
old
Exclusionism
is
everywhere
breaking
down.
In
physics
Exclusionism
is
breaking
down
by
its
own
researches
in
radium,
for
instance,
and
in
its
speculations
upon
electrons,
or
its
merging
away
into
metaphysics,
and
by
the
desertion
that
has
been
going
on
for
many
years,
by
such
men
as
Gurney,
Crookes,
Wallace,
Flammarion,
Lodge,
to
formerly
disregarded
phenomena--no
longer
called
"spiritualism"
but
now
"psychic
research."
Biology
is
in
chaos:
conventional
Darwinites
mixed
up
with
mutationists
and
orthogenesists
and
followers
of
Wisemann,
who
take
from
Darwinism
one
of
its
pseudo-bases,
and
nevertheless
try
to
reconcile
their
heresies
with
orthodoxy.
The
painters
are
metaphysicians
and
psychologists.
The
breaking
down
of
Exclusionism
in
China
and
Japan
and
in
the
United
States
has
astonished
History.
The
science
of
astronomy
is
going
downward
so
that,
though
Pickering,
for
instance,
did
speculate
upon
a
Trans-Neptunian
planet,
and
Lowell
did
try
to
have
accepted
heretical
ideas
as
to
marks
on
Mars,
attention
is
now
minutely
focused
upon
such
technicalities
as
variations
in
shades
of
Jupiter's
fourth
satellite.
I
think
that,
in
general
acceptance,
over-refinement
indicates
decadence.
I
think
that
the
stronghold
of
Inclusionism
is
in
aeronautics.
I
think
that
the
stronghold
of
the
Old
Dominant,
when
it
was
new,
was
in
the
invention
of
the
telescope.
Or
that
coincidentally
with
the
breakdown
of
Exclusionism
appears
the
means
of
finding
out--whether
there
are
vast
aerial
fields
of
ice
and
floating
lakes
full
of
frogs
and
fishes
or
not--where
carved
stones
and
black
substances
and
great
quantities
of
vegetable
matter
and
flesh,
which
may
be
dragons'
flesh,
come
from--whether
there
are
inter-planetary
trade
routes
and
vast
areas
devastated
by
Super-Tamerlanes--whether
sometimes
there
are
visitors
to
this
earth--who
might
be
pursued
and
captured
and
questioned.
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