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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
51
Then
the
exclusionists.
Something
that
looked
like
beef:
one
flake
of
it
the
size
of
a
square
envelope.
If
we
think
of
how
hard
the
exclusionists
have
fought
to
reject
the
coming
of
ordinary-looking
dust
from
this
earth's
externality,
we
can
sympathize
with
them
in
this
sensational
instance,
perhaps.
Newspaper
correspondents
wrote
broadcast
and
witnesses
were
quoted,
and
this
time
there
is
no
mention
of
a
hoax,
and,
except
by
one
scientist,
there
is
no
denial
that
the
fall
did
take
place.
It
seems
to
me
that
the
exclusionists
are
still
more
emphatically
conservators.
It
is
not
so
much
that
they
are
inimical
to
all
data
of
externally
derived
substances
that
fall
upon
this
earth,
as
that
they
are
inimical
to
all
data
discordant
with
a
system
that
does
not
include
such
phenomena--
Or
the
spirit
or
hope
or
ambition
of
the
cosmos,
which
we
call
attempted
positivism:
not
to
find
out
the
new;
not
to
add
to
what
is
called
knowledge,
but
to
systematize.
Scientific
American
Supplement,
2-426:
That
the
substance
reported
from
Kentucky
had
been
examined
by
Leopold
Brandeis.
"At
last
we
have
a
proper
explanation
of
this
much
talked
of
phenomenon."
"It
has
been
comparatively
easy
to
identify
the
substance
and
to
fix
its
status.
The
Kentucky
'wonder'
is
no
more
or
less
than
nostoc."
Or
that
it
had
not
fallen;
that
it
had
been
upon
the
ground
in
the
first
place,
and
had
swollen
in
rain,
and,
attracting
attention
by
greatly
increased
volume,
had
been
supposed
by
unscientific
observers
to
have
fallen
in
rain--
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