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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Last
of
August:
not
September.
In
the
London
Times
there
is
no
mention
of
balloon
ascents
in
Great
Britain,
in
the
summer
of
1885,
but
mention
of
two
ascents
in
France.
Both
balloons
had
escaped.
In
L'Aeronaute,
August,
1885,
it
is
said
that
these
balloons
had
been
sent
up
from
fetes
of
the
fourteenth
of
July--44
days
before
the
observation
at
Bermuda.
The
aeronauts
were
Gower
and
Eloy.
Gower's
balloon
was
found
floating
on
the
ocean,
but
Eloy's
balloon
was
not
found.
Upon
the
17th
of
July
it
was
reported
by
a
sea
captain:
still
in
the
air;
still
inflated.
But
this
balloon
of
Eloy's
was
a
small
exhibition
balloon,
made
for
short
ascents
from
fetes
and
fair
grounds.
In
La
Nature,
1885-2-131,
it
is
said
that
it
was
a
very
small
balloon,
incapable
of
remaining
long
in
the
air.
As
to
contemporaneous
ballooning
in
the
United
States,
I
find
only
one
account:
an
ascent
in
Connecticut,
July
29,
1885.
Upon
leaving
this
balloon,
the
aeronauts
had
pulled
the
"rip
cord,"
"turning
it
inside
out."
(New
York
Times,
Aug.
10,
1885.)
To
the
Intermediatist,
the
accusation
of
"anthropomorphism"
is
meaningless.
There
is
nothing
in
anything
that
is
unique
or
positively
different.
We'd
be
materialists
were
it
not
quite
as
rational
to
express
the
material
in
terms
of
the
immaterial
as
to
express
the
immaterial
in
terms
of
the
material.
Oneness
of
allness
in
quasiness.
I
will
engage
to
write
the
formula
of
any
novel
in
psycho-chemic
terms,
or
draw
its
graph
in
psycho-mechanic
terms:
or
write,
in
romantic
terms,
the
circumstances
and
sequences
of
any
chemic
or
electric
or
magnetic
reaction:
or
express
any
historic
event
in
algebraic
terms--or
see
Boole
and
Jevons
for
economic
situations
expressed
algebraically.
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