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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Dr.
Hahn
said
that
he
had
found
fossils
in
meteorites.
There
is
a
description
of
the
corals,
sponges,
shells,
and
crinoids,
all
of
them
microscopic,
which
he
photographed,
in
Popular
Science,
20-83.
Dr.
Hahn
was
a
well-known
scientist.
He
was
better
known
after
that.
Anybody
may
theorize
upon
other
worlds
and
conditions
upon
them
that
are
similar
to
our
own
conditions:
if
his
notions
be
presented
undisguisedly
as
fiction,
or
only
as
an
"interesting
hypothesis,"
he'll
stir
up
no
prude
rages.
But
Dr.
Hahn
said
definitely
that
he
had
found
fossils
in
specified
meteorites:
also
he
published
photographs
of
them.
His
book
is
in
the
New
York
Public
Library.
In
the
reproductions
every
feature
of
some
of
the
little
shells
is
plainly
marked.
If
they're
not
shells,
neither
are
things
under
an
oyster-counter.
The
striations
are
very
plain:
one
sees
even
the
hinges
where
bivalves
are
joined.
Prof.
Lawrence
Smith
(Knowledge,
1-258):
"Dr.
Hahn
is
a
kind
of
half-insane
man,
whose
imagination
has
run
away
with
him."
Conservation
of
Continuity.
Then
Dr.
Weinland
examined
Dr.
Hahn's
specimens.
He
gave
his
opinion
that
they
are
fossils
and
that
they
are
not
crystals
of
enstatite,
as
asserted
by
Prof.
Smith,
who
had
never
seen
them.
The
damnation
of
denial
and
the
damnation
of
disregard:
After
the
publication
of
Dr.
Weinland's
findings--silence.
7
The
living
things
that
have
come
down
to
this
earth:
Attempts
to
preserve
the
system:
That
small
frogs
and
toads,
for
instance,
never
have
fallen
from
the
sky,
but
were--"on
the
ground,
in
the
first
place";
or
that
there
have
been
such
falls--"up
from
one
place
in
a
whirlwind,
and
down
in
another."
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