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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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There
is,
in
human
intellection,
no
real
standard
to
judge
by,
but
our
acceptance,
for
the
present,
is
that
the
more
nearly
positive
will
prevail.
By
the
more
nearly
positive
we
mean
the
more
nearly
Organized.
Everything
merges
away
into
everything
else,
but
proportionately
to
its
complexity,
if
unified,
a
thing
seems
strong,
real,
and
distinct:
so,
in
aesthetics,
it
is
recognized
that
diversity
in
unity
is
higher
beauty,
or
approximation
to
Beauty,
than
is
simpler
unity;
so
the
logicians
feel
that
agreement
of
diverse
data
constitute
greater
convincingness,
or
strength,
than
that
of
mere
parallel
instances:
so
to
Herbert
Spencer
the
more
highly
differentiated
and
integrated
is
the
more
fully
evolved.
Our
opponents
hold
out
for
mundane
origin
of
all
black
rains.
Our
method
will
be
the
presenting
of
diverse
phenomena
in
agreement
with
the
notion
of
some
other
origin.
We
take
up
not
only
black
rains
but
black
rains
and
their
accompanying
phenomena.
A
correspondent
to
Knowledge,
5-190,
writes
of
a
black
rain
that
fell
in
the
Clyde
Valley,
March
1,
1884:
of
another
black
rain
that
fell
two
days
later.
According
to
the
correspondent,
a
black
rain
had
fallen
in
the
Clyde
Valley,
March
20,
1828:
then
again
March
22,
1828.
According
to
Nature,
9-43,
a
black
rain
fell
at
Marlsford,
England,
Sept.
4,
1873;
more
than
twenty-four
hours
later
another
black
rain
fell
in
the
same
small
town.
The
black
rains
of
Slains:
According
to
Rev.
James
Rust
(Scottish
Showers):
A
black
rain
at
Slains,
Jan.
14,
1862--another
at
Carluke,
140
miles
from
Slains,
May
1,
1862--at
Slains,
May
20,
1862--Slains,
Oct.
28,
1863.
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