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[p. 135] 10 In many of the temples and treasure houses of old civilizations upon this earth have been preserved things that have fallen from the sky--or meteorites. Again we have a Brahmin. This thing is buried alive in the heart of propriety: it is in the British Museum. Carpenter, in The Microscope and Its Revelations, gives two drawings of it. Carpenter argues that it is impossible to accept that optical lenses had ever been made by the ancients. Never occurred to him-- someone a million miles or so up in the air--looking through his telescope--lens drops out. This does not appeal to Carpenter: he says that this object must have been an ornament. According to Brewster, it was not an ornament, but "a true optical lens." In that case, in ruins of an old civilization upon this earth, has been found an accursed thing that was, acceptably, not a product of any old civilization indigenous to this earth. The Book of the Damned, by Charles Fort, [1919], at sacred-texts.com