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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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"It
is
said
that
a
great
number
of
the
seeds
were
in
the
first
stage
of
germination."
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The
New
Dominant.
Inclusionism.
In
it
we
have
a
pseudo-standard.
We
have
a
datum,
and
we
give
it
an
interpretation,
in
accordance
with
our
pseudo-standard.
At
present
we
have
not
the
delusions
of
Absolutism
that
may
have
translated
some
of
the
positivists
of
the
nineteenth
century
to
heaven.
We
are
Intermediatists--but
feel
a
lurking
suspicion
that
we
may
some
day
solidify
and
dogmatize
and
illiberalize
into
higher
positivists.
At
present
we
do
not
ask
whether
something
be
reasonable
or
preposterous,
because
we
recognize
that
by
reasonableness
and
preposterousness
are
meant
agreement
and
disagreement
with
a
standard--which
must
be
a
delusion--though
not
absolutely,
of
course--and
must
some
day
be
displaced
by
a
more
advanced
quasi-delusion.
Scientists
in
the
past
have
taken
the
positivist
attitude--is
this
or
that
reasonable
or
unreasonable?
Analyze
them
and
we
find
that
they
meant
relatively
to
a
standard,
such
as
Newtonism,
Daltonism,
Darwinism,
or
Lyellism.
But
they
have
written
and
spoken
and
thought
as
if
they
could
mean
real
reasonableness
and
real
unreasonableness.
So
our
pseudo-standard
is
Inclusionism,
and,
if
a
datum
be
a
correlate
to
a
more
widely
inclusive
outlook
as
to
this
earth
and
its
externality
and
relations
with
externality,
its
harmony
with
Inclusionism
admits
it.
Such
was
the
process,
and
such
was
the
requirement
for
admission
in
the
days
of
the
Old
Dominant:
our
difference
is
in
underlying
Intermediatism,
or
consciousness
that
though
we're
more
nearly
real,
we
and
our
standards
are
only
quasi--
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