The Book of the Damned

er, diamon

, when they occur in metallic or stony masses that Science has recognized as met

ance that has fallen with meteorites. No particulars given; not another mention anywhere else that I can find. In this English publication, the word "punk" is not u

nd social registers: a Goldstein who can'

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 sto

a man's fist, that fell at Pultusk, Poland, Jan. 30, 1868, upon a road, where

one and limestone are repulsive to both theologians and scientists. Sandstone and limestone suggest other worlds upon which o

ar Middleburg, Florida. It was exhibited at the Sub-tropical Exposition, at Jackso

limestone

mestone did not f

s: that, then, would leave nothing to reason about-so then that all reasoning must be based upon "something" not unive

re, 189

imestone at Chateau-Landon-or up and down in a whirlwind. But they fell with hail-which, in

not fallen, but had been on the ground in the first place. But, upon page 140, Science Gossip, 1887, is an account of "a large, smooth, water-worn, gritty sandstone pebble" that had been found i

sandstone pebble was

nt, is less exclusive: Report of 1860, p. 197: substance about the size of a duck's egg, that fell at Raphoe, Ireland, June 9

nces held in solution, can be raised by evaporation. However, falls of salty water have received attention from Dalton and others, an

t occurred high in the m

. Let anything be explained in local terms of the coast of Engla

ion is a crime: whoever made it, should have had his finger-prints taken. We are told (An. Rec.

forgets. One has an impression from geography lessons: Mediterranean not more than three inches wide, on the map; Switzerland only a few more inches away. These sizable masses of salt are desc

: extraordina

mes, Dec.

2, 1883; described as an unknown substance, in particles-or flakes?-like snow

ella

ll, Nov. 16, 1857, at Charleston,

m size of a pea to size of a walnut, at Lobau

ng a storm: substance that looked like crystallized ni

their regions be subjacent to Cunard or White Star routes, they're especi

-product. The Rev. James Rust seemed to feel

r. Sci., 3-18-78) says that the slag "had been on the ground in the first place." It was furnace-slag. "A che

Elijah, into the Positive Absolute. My own notion is that, in a moment of super-concentration, Elijah became so nearly a real prophet that he was translated to heaven, or to the Positive Absolute, with such velocity that he left an incandescent train behind him. As we go along, we shall find the "true test of meteoritic material," which in the past has been taken as an absolute, dissolving into almost utmost nebulo

Darmstadt, June 7, 1846; listed by Greg (R

al Magazine

as found far in the interior o

le in a tree and hide a cannon ball, which one could take to bed, and hide under one's pillow, just as easily. So with the stone of Battersea Fi

ee, as if broken off the stone

ne other

ither will I, that they came from the furnaces of vast ae

cause we'd expect many falls of terrestrial

ptances, I have fel

, after a while, and is again seen to be the preposterous. Or that all progress is from the outrageous to the academic or sanctified, and back to the outrageous-modified, however, by a trend of higher and higher approximation to the impreposterous. Sometimes I feel a little more uninspired than at other times, but I th

and angels are beings that have not obviously barbed tails to them-or

returns to it, in the issue of 1876: considers it "in the highest degre

stro. de Fra

Annoy, France, March 27, 1908: simply called a curious

essure, are common; but spherical formations-as if of things that

1884, quotes a Ki

was in marble-sized balls, which were soft and pulpy, but which, upon drying, crumbled at touch. The shower was con

fall, loud noi

should sift down upon deep-sea fishes, that

d by Mr. Symons, the meteorologist, some of whose i

242)-at least we are told, in the reluctant way, that someone "thought" he saw matt

ghtship, Jan. 9, 1873. In the Amer. Jour. Sci., 2-24-449, there is a notice that the Editor had received a

or slag or clinkers, the high priest of the accursed that m

c

hing like cinders, also thought he

e, 36

coke" that fell-during a thunderstor

harc

Smith, is described by him as having "the appearance of a piece of common wood charcoal." Nevertheless, the reassured feeling of the faithful, upon reading this, is burdened with data of differences: the substance was so uncommonly heavy that it seemed as if it had iron in it; also there was "a sprinkling of sulphur." This material is s

nce rise

lso charcoal, which might perhaps be ac

meteoritic" did not fall from the sky, but were picked up by "truly meteo

surances and t

was not merely coated with charcoal; hi

be via data of resinous substances and bituminous subs

llen at Kaba, Hungary, April 15, 1

fireball? at Neuhaus, Bohemia, Dec. 1

ish substance; very friable, carbonaceous matter; when bur

Italy, said to have been resinous; said by Arago (?u

3, 1822, of bituminous matter, listed by Greg as doubtful; fall of bituminous matter, in Germany, March 8, 1798, listed by Greg. Lockyer (The Meteoric Hypothesis, p. 24) says that the substance that fell at

with a brief mention, ignores the whole subject of the fall of carbonaceous matter from the sky. Proctor, in all of his books that I have read-is, in books, about as close as we can get to the admissio

mer.,

e of Good Hope "resembled a piece of an

which we mean departure from the characters of an established species-quasi-established, of course-to say that coal has fallen from the sky, as would be, to something in a barnyard, a t

several falls of carbonaceous matter, but with disregards that make for reasonableness that earthy matter may have been caught up by whirlwinds and flung down somewhere else. If he had given a full list, he would be called upon to explain the special affinity of whirlwinds for a special kind of coal. He does not give a full list. We shall have all that's findable, and we shall see that against this disease we're writing, the homeopathist's prescription availeth not. Another exclusionist was Prof. Lawrence Smith. His psycho-tropism was to respond to all reports of carbonaceous matter falling from the sky, by saying that this damned matter had been deposited upon things of the chosen by impact with this earth. Mos

ituminous substance" when heated, according to the observations of Bergelius and a commission appointed by the French Academy. This time w

ope has in it a little more than a quarter of organic matter, which, in alcohol, gives t

hem as large as a human head, of a substance that "resembled a dull-colored earthy lignite"); Goalpara, India, about 1867 (about 8 per cent

edge,

and boghead coal." In Comptes Rendus, 96-1764, it is said that this mass fell, June 30, 1880, in the province Entre Ríos,

g. 10, 1885: when burned, it gave out a b

an. 22, 1911: very friable: 50 per cent of its soluble

that fell with sand at Naples, March

r. Sup.,

a. It contained 5 per cent organic matter, which, when powdered and digested in alcohol, yield

nd slag and coke an

sometimes deep-sea f

and environment, that would be a real thing-something not merging away indistinguishably with the surrounding. So all attempt to be original; all attempt to invent something that is more than mere extension or modification of the preceding, is positivism-or that if one could conceive of a device t

instantaneous translation-residue of negativeness left behind, looking much like effects of a stroke of lightning. Some day I shall tell the story

between him and Manet there were mutual influences-but the spirit of abrupt difference is the spirit of positivism, and Manet's stand was against the dictum that all lights and shades must merge away suavely into one another and prepare for one another. So a biologist like De Vries represents positivism, or the breaking of Cont

e call evolution or progress i

as individualities, and, failing, move in quasi-regular orbits that are expressions of relations with the sun

rove to break away from Sulphur and Oxygen, and be real, homogeneous Iro

ous things it conceived of, sometimes in a frenzy of effort to break away abruptly from all pre

ion only by the establishi

mbilical cord only

blished-fighting so that here, more than a century after meteorites were included, no other notable inclusion has

ng of the preposterous, against Sir W.H. Thomson's notio

d it as a jest" (

ut jest-or something inter

t an existence

that some of us seem almost alive-like characters in something a novelist is wri

ences and religions, and is narrating or pictur

a real existence, by which we mean a consistent existence, or a state in which there is real intelligence, or a form of thinking that does not indistinguishably merge a

to anybody

al Magazine

Hungary, April 15, 1857, contained org

imes

this, with the usual exclusion-imagination known as stupidity, but unjustly, because there is no real stupidity, thinks he can think of a good-sized stone that had for many years been in a cultivated field, but that had never been seen before-had never interfered with plowing, for instance. He is earnest and un

description of the corals, sponges, shells, and crinoids, all of t

own scientist. He was

milar to our own conditions: if his notions be presented undisguisedly as f

in the New York Public Library. In the reproductions every feature of some of the little shells is plainly marked. If they're not s

e Smith (Know

-insane man, whose imaginat

ion of Co

pinion that they are fossils and that they are not crystals of

enial and the damn

on of Dr. Weinland'