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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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Scientists
and
their
dream
of
"pure
science."
Artists
and
their
dream
of
"art
for
art's
sake."
It
is
our
notion
that
if
they
could
almost
realize,
that
would
be
almost
realness:
that
they
would
instantly
be
translated
into
real
existence.
Such
thinkers
are
good
positivists,
but
they
are
evil
in
an
economic
and
sociologic
sense,
if,
in
that
sense,
nothing
has
justification
for
being,
unless
it
serve,
or
function
for,
or
express
the
relations
of,
some
higher
aggregate.
So
Science
functions
for
and
serves
society
at
large,
and
would,
from
society
at
large,
receive
no
support,
unless
it
did
so
divert
itself
or
dissipate
and
prostitute
itself.
It
seems
that
by
prostitution
I
mean
usefulness.
There
have
been
red
rains
that,
in
the
middle
ages,
were
called
"rains
of
blood."
Such
rains
terrified
many
persons,
and
were
so
unsettling
to
large
populations,
that
Science,
in
its
sociologic
relations,
has
sought,
by
Mrs.
Eddy's
method,
to
remove
an
evil--
That
"rains
of
blood"
do
not
exist;
That
rains
so
called
are
only
of
water
colored
by
sand
from
the
Sahara
Desert.
My
own
acceptance
is
that
such
assurances,
whether
fictitious
or
not,
whether
the
Sahara
is
a
"dazzling
white"
desert
or
not,
have
wrought
such
good
effects,
in
a
sociologic
sense,
even
though
prostitutional
in
the
positivist
sense,
that,
in
the
sociologic
sense,
they
were
well
justified:
But
that
we've
gone
on:
that
this
is
the
twentieth
century;
that
most
of
us
have
grown
up
so
that
such
soporifics
of
the
past
are
no
longer
necessary:
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