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end to cast thousands of good-sized fishes have anathematized us for laughing disrespectfully, because, as with all clowns, underlying buffoonery is the desire to be taken seriously; that pale ignorances, presiding over microscopes by which t

The accursed are those who

are reasons arraigned befor

g, or in the merging away of everything into something else, there could be anything that could be accounted for in only one way. The scientist and the theologian reason that if something can be accounted for in only one way, it is accounted for in that way-or logic would be logical, if t

e's morning newspaper hasn't much to do with one's modernity all day long. In reading Fletcher's catalogue, for instance, we learn that some of the best-known meteorites were "found in draining a field"-"found in makin

er-if it be too difficult to utter the word "coal"-we see that in this inclusion-exclusion, as in every othe

n the dogged clinging to a poor sham of a thing long after its insufficiency has been shown-or renewed hope and search for the special that can be true, or for something loc

reaction occurs: then they move forward-as it were. Then they become dogmatic, and take for bases, positions that were only points of exhaustion. So chemistry divided and sub-divided down to atoms; then, in the essential insecur

en have objects of material such as fossiliferous limestone and slag been sent to him He says that these thing

und in the first place. It is only by coincidence that lightning has struck, or that

ended indefinitely. That's a tantalizing

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s not wor

inced that they had seen what they may have seen, strongly enough to risk ridicule, to make up bundles, go to expres

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he sky, we are not-except by association with the "carbonaceous" meteorites-strong in our impres

ntomosity of our impression substantiates proportionately to its multiplicity. M. Daubrée says that often have strange damned things been sent to

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d undated in Scien

be of the Positive Absolute, and, though the ideal of, a violation of, the very essence of quasi-existence, wherein only to have

by the oneness of quasiness, to the very same methods by which orthodoxy established and maintains its now sleek, suave preposterousnesses. At any rate, though we are inspired by an especial subtle essence-or imponderable, I think-that pe

ave some heresies, is that if things found in coal coul

es that have been found in coal are "fossil aerolites": that they had fallen from the sky, ages a

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m a mine in Scotland, an iro

s from the fact of its having been found in the hear

ip beyond the means and skill of the primitive men who

was considered

gher approximation to realness, than has the at

ed for coal, and that his drill may have

t is that there was no sign of boring: that this instrument was in a lump of coal that had

thing may not have fallen from the sky: if in coal-forming times, in Scotland, there were, indigenous to this ear

mitted to us, because we are quite as desirous to make acceptable that

nd in chalk, at a depth of from five to six feet, near Bredenstone, England. The design upon it is said to be of a

t. It looks very desir

first of June, 1851, a powerful blast, near Dorchester, Mass., cast out from a bed of solid rock a bell-shaped vessel of an unknown metal: floral designs inlaid with silver; "art of some cunning workman." The opinion of the Edit

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oal, in Austria, 1885. It i

carbonaceous matter merges away into such a variety of organic substances, that all standards are reduced to indistinguishability: if, then, there is no real standard against us, there is no real resistance to our own acceptances. Now our intermediatism is: Science takes "true meteoritic material" as a standard of admission

a very old deposit, antedates human life, except, perhaps, very primitive human life, as an indigen

is said that, though so geometric, its phenomena so characteri

deposit-Te

arbon, and a small

is supposed by the faithful to

entists who examined it could reach no agreement. They bifurcated: then

oritic material, and had

itic material, but telluric ir

that had fallen from the sky, but h

of meteorites; geometric form; presence in an ancient deposit; material as hard as steel; absence upon this earth, in Tertiary times, of me

steel object that had fallen from the sky to this earth, in Tertiary times, is not forced upon one. We offer ours as the only synthetic expression. For instance, in Science Goss

sion all around it. Of its faces,

ere disregarded, the only means of nullification that I can think of would be demonstration that this object is a mass of iron pyrites, which sometimes forms geometrically. But the analysis mentions not a trace of sulphur. Of course our weakness, or impositiveness, lie

rth things that fell from the sky, or that were le

out a quarter of a mile below Rutherford Mills, discovered a gold thread embedded in the stone at a

g; not at all frow

mes, Dec.

rous quartz about the size of a man's fist. It was accidentally dropped-split open-nail in it. There was a c

artz was forming-super-carpenter, million

of the lowest of the damned, or of the journalistic caste of the accursed, could merge away with s

avid Brewster (Rept. B

idence-except that it could not have been from the surface. The quarry had been worked about twenty years. It consisted of alternate layers of hard stone and a substance called "till." The point of the nail, quit

d by a Baptist. Its case was stated fairly; Brewster related all circumstances available to him-b

the thing can

d have to be a revision of prevailing dogmas upon quartz and sandstone and age indicated by them, if the opposing data should be accepted. Of course it may be contended by both the ortho

. News,

nly 15 years in which to form: that, where a mill had been built, sandstone had been found, when the mill w

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that he had to bring before the meeting an object "of so incredible a nature that nothin

en found in the treas

civilizations upon this earth have been preserved

is buried alive in the heart of pr

it is impossible to accept that optical lenses had ever been made by the ancients. Never occurre

nter: he says that this objec

t was not an ornament, b

h, has been found an accursed thing that was, acceptably, no