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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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The
fall
of
sulphur
from
the
sky
has
been
especially
repulsive
to
the
modern
orthodoxy--largely
because
of
its
associations
with
the
superstitions
or
principles
of
the
preceding
orthodoxy--stories
of
devils:
sulphurous
exhalations.
Several
writers
have
said
that
they
have
had
this
feeling.
So
the
scientific
reactionists,
who
have
rabidly
fought
the
preceding,
because
it
was
the
preceding:
and
the
scientific
prudes,
who,
in
sheer
exclusionism,
have
held
lean
hands
over
pale
eyes,
denying
falls
of
sulphur.
I
have
many
notes
upon
the
sulphurous
odor
of
meteorites,
and
many
notes
upon
phosphorescence
of
things
that
come
from
externality.
Some
day
I
shall
look
over
old
stories
of
demons
that
have
appeared
sulphurously
upon
this
earth,
with
the
idea
of
expressing
that
we
have
often
had
undesirable
visitors
from
other
worlds;
or
that
an
indication
of
external
derivation
is
sulphurousness.
I
expect
some
day
to
rationalize
demonology,
but
just
at
present
we
are
scarcely
far
enough
advanced
to
go
so
far
back.
For
a
circumstantial
account
of
a
mass
of
burning
sulphur,
about
the
size
of
a
man's
fist,
that
fell
at
Pultusk,
Poland,
Jan.
30,
1868,
upon
a
road,
where
it
was
stamped
out
by
a
crowd
of
villagers,
see
Rept.
Brit.
Assoc.,
1874-272.
The
power
of
the
exclusionists
lies
in
that
in
their
stand
are
combined
both
modern
and
archaic
systematists.
Falls
of
sandstone
and
limestone
are
repulsive
to
both
theologians
and
scientists.
Sandstone
and
limestone
suggest
other
worlds
upon
which
occur
processes
like
geological
processes;
but
limestone,
as
a
fossiliferous
substance,
is
of
course
especially
of
the
unchosen.
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