.4 BOOK OF THE DAMNED 



this one attempt, because there always have been outside forces, or 

 other nations contending for the same goal. 



As to physical things, chemic, mineralogic, astronomic, it is not 

 customary to say that they act to achieve Truth or Entity, but it is 

 understood that all motions are toward Equilibrium: that there is 

 no motion except toward Equilibrium, of course always away from 

 some other approximation to Equilibrium. 



All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions 

 other than adjustments. 



Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the 

 Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it. 



But that all that we call "being" is motion: and that all motion 

 is the expression, not of equilibrium, but of equilibrating, or of 

 equilibrium unattained: that life-motions are expressions of equi- 

 librium unattained: that all thought relates to the unattained: that 

 to have what is called being in our quasi-state, is not to be in the 

 positive sense, or is to be intermediate to Equilibrium and Inequi- 

 librium. 



So then: 



That all phenomena in our intermediate state, or quasi-state, 

 represent this one attempt to organize, stabilize, harmonize, indi- 

 vidualize or to positivize, or to become real: 



That only to have seeming is to express failure or intermediate- 

 ness to final failure and final success; 



That every attempt that is observable is defeated by Conti- 

 nuity, or by outside forces or by the excluded that are continuous 

 with the included: 



That our whole "existence" is an attempt by the relative to be 

 the absolute, or by the local to be the universal. 



In this book, my interest is in this attempt as manifested in 

 modern science: 



That it has attempted to be real, true, final, complete, absolute: 



That, if the seeming of being, here, in our quasi-state, is the 

 product of exclusion that is always false and arbitrary, if always 

 are included and excluded continuous, the whole seeming system, 

 or entity, of modern science is only quasi-system, or quasi-entity, 

 wrought by the same false and arbitrary process as that by which 

 the still less positive system that preceded it, or the theological 

 system, wrought the illusion of its being. 



In this book, I assemble some of the data that I think are of the 

 falsely and arbitrarily excluded. 



