The Book of the Damned - Charles Fort-pages

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water. attraction. Or still simpler: Here are the data. But the omnipresence of Heterogeneity--or living fishes, also--ponds of fresh water: oceans of salt As to the Law of Gravitation, | prefer to take one simple stand: Orthodoxy accepts the correlation and equivalence of forces: Gravitation is one of these forces. All other forces have phenomena of repulsion and of inertness irrespective of distance, as well as of But Newtonian Gravitation admits attraction only: Then Newtonian Gravitation can be only one-third acceptable even to the orthodox, or there is denial of the correlation and equivalence of forces. Make what you will, yourself, of them. In our Intermediatist revolt against homogeneous, or positive, explanations, or our acceptance that the all-sufficing cannot be less than universality, besides which, however, there would be nothing to suffice, our expression upon the Super-Sargasso Sea, though it harmonizes with data of fishes that fall as if from a stationary source--and, of course, with other data, too--is inadequate to account for two peculiarities of the falls of frogs: