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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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We
have
already
gone
into
the
subject
of
Science
and
its
attempted
positiveness,
and
its
resistances
in
that
it
must
have
relations
of
service.
It
is
very
easy
to
see
that
most
of
the
theoretic
science
of
the
19th
century
was
only
a
relation
of
reaction
against
theologic
dogma,
and
has
no
more
to
do
with
Truth
than
has
a
wave
that
bounds
back
from
a
shore.
Or,
if
a
shop
girl,
or
you
or
I,
should
pull
out
a
piece
of
chewing
gum
about
a
yard
long,
that
would
be
quite
as
scientific
a
performance
as
was
the
stretching
of
this
earth's
age
several
hundred
millions
of
years.
All
"things"
are
not
things,
but
only
relations,
or
expressions
of
relations:
but
all
relations
are
striving
to
be
the
unrelated,
or
have
surrendered
to,
and
subordinated
to,
higher
attempts.
So
there
is
a
positivist
aspect
to
this
reaction
that
is
itself
only
a
relation,
and
that
is
the
attempt
to
assimilate
all
phenomena
under
the
materialist
explanation,
or
to
formulate
a
final,
all-inclusive
system,
upon
the
materialist
basis.
If
this
attempt
could
be
realized,
that
would
be
the
attaining
of
realness;
but
this
attempt
can
be
made
only
by
disregarding
psychic
phenomena,
for
instance--or,
if
science
shall
eventually
give
in
to
the
psychic,
it
would
be
no
more
legitimate
to
explain
the
immaterial
in
terms
of
the
material
than
to
explain
the
material
in
terms
of
the
immaterial.
Our
own
acceptance
is
that
material
and
immaterial
are
of
a
oneness,
merging,
for
instance,
in
a
thought
that
is
continuous
with
a
physical
action:
that
oneness
cannot
be
explained,
because
the
process
of
explaining
is
the
interpreting
of
something
in
terms
of
something
else.
All
explanation
is
assimilation
of
something
in
terms
of
something
else
that
has
been
taken
as
a
basis:
but,
in
Continuity,
there
is
nothing
that
is
any
more
basic
than
anything
else--unless
we
think
that
delusion
built
upon
delusion
is
less
real
than
its
pseudo-foundation.
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