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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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I
shall
attempt
not
much
of
correlation
of
dates.
A
mathematic-minded
positivist,
with
his
delusion
that
in
an
intermediate
state
twice
two
are
four,
whereas,
if
we
accept
Continuity,
we
cannot
accept
that
there
are
anywhere
two
things
to
start
with,
would
search
our
data
for
periodicities.
It
is
so
obvious
to
me
that
the
mathematic,
or
the
regular,
is
the
attribute
of
the
Universal,
that
I
have
not
much
inclination
to
look
for
it
in
the
local.
Still,
in
this
solar
system,
"as
a
whole,"
there
is
considerable
approximation
to
regularity;
or
the
mathematic
is
so
nearly
localized
that
eclipses,
for
instance,
can,
with
rather
high
approximation,
be
foretold,
though
I
have
notes
that
would
deflate
a
little
the
astronomers'
vainglory
in
this
respect--or
would
if
that
were
possible.
An
astronomer
is
poorly
paid,
uncheered
by
crowds,
considerably
isolated:
he
lives
upon
his
own
inflations:
deflate
a
bear
and
it
couldn't
hibernate.
This
solar
system
is
like
every
other
phenomenon
that
can
be
regarded
"as
a
whole"--or
the
affairs
of
a
ward
are
interfered
with
by
the
affairs
of
the
city
of
which
it
is
a
part;
city
by
county;
county
by
state;
state
by
nation;
nation
by
other
nations;
all
nations
by
climatic
conditions;
climatic
conditions
by
solar
circumstances;
sun
by
general
planetary
circumstances;
solar
system
"as
a
whole"
by
other
solar
systems--so
the
hopelessness
of
finding
the
phenomena
of
entirety
in
the
ward
of
a
city.
But
positivists
are
those
who
try
to
find
the
unrelated
in
the
ward
of
a
city.
In
our
acceptance
this
is
the
spirit
of
cosmic
religion.
Objectively
the
state
is
not
realizable
in
the
ward
of
a
city.
But,
if
a
positivist
could
bring
himself
to
absolute
belief
that
he
had
found
it,
that
would
be
a
subjective
realization
of
that
which
is
unrealizable
objectively.
Of
course
we
do
not
draw
a
positive
line
between
the
objective
and
the
subjective--or
that
all
phenomena
called
things
or
persons
are
subjective
within
one
all-inclusive
nexus,
and
that
thoughts
within
those
that
are
commonly
called
"persons"
are
sub-subjective.
It
is
rather
as
if
Intermediateness
strove
for
Regularity
in
this
solar
system
and
failed:
then
generated
the
mentality
of
astronomers,
and,
in
that
secondary
expression,
strove
for
conviction
that
failure
had
been
success.
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