Obversely, that the incomplete, or the mutilated, is the ugly...
A hand thought of only as a hand, may seem beautiful.
Found on a battlefield --obviously a part-- not beautiful.
...every attempt to achieve beauty is an attempt to give the local the attribute of the universal."
-Chales Fort, (p11-12, The Book of the Damned, 1919.).
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"The fittest survive.
What is meant by the fittest?
Not the strongest; not the cleverest-
Weakness and stupidity everywhere survive.
There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive.
"Fitness," then, is only another name for "survival."
Darwinism:
That survivors survive."
-Charles Fort, (p. 26, The Book of the Damned, 1919.).
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"I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written. I cannot accept that the products of minds are subject-matter for beliefs."
-Charles Fort, (p. 31, Lo!, 1931.).
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