Peasants believed in meteorites. Scientists excluded meteorites. Peasants believe in “thunderstones.” Scientists exclude “thunderstones.” It is useless to argue that peasants are out in the fields, and that scientists are shut up in laboratories and lecture rooms. We cannot take for a real base that, as to phenomena with which they are more familiar, … [Read more...] about Peasants believed in meteorites
exclusionism
This is a common reflex
This is a common reflext with the exclusionists: that substances not “truly meteoritic” did not fall from the sky, but were picked up by “truly meteoritic” things, of course only on their surfaces, by impact with this earth. Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 74 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974). … [Read more...] about This is a common reflex
It seems to me
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 amibition of the cosmos, which we call attempted … [Read more...] about It seems to me
The power of exclusionists
The power of 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 … [Read more...] about The power of exclusionists
it does not matter
It does not matter which of our subject we take up, our experience is unvarying: the standardized explanation will be Exclusionism. Charles Fort, New Lands, p423 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974). … [Read more...] about it does not matter