BOOK OF THE DAMNED 15 



The data of the damned. 



I have gone into the outer darkness of scientific and philosophical 

 transactions and proceedings, ultra-respectable, but covered with 

 the dust of disregard. I have descended into journalism. I have 

 come back with the quasi-souls of lost data. 



They will march. 



As to the logic of our expressions to come 



That there is only quasi-logic in our mode of seeming: 



That nothing ever has been proved 



Because there is nothing to prove. 



When I say that there is nothing to prove, I mean that to those 

 who accept Continuity, or the merging away of all phenomena into 

 other phenomena, without positive demarcations one from another, 

 there is, in a positive sense, no one thing. There is nothing to prove. 



For instance nothing can be proved to be an animal because 

 animalness and vegetableness are not positively different. There 

 are some expressions of life that are as much vegetable as animal, 

 or that represent the merging of animalness and vegetableness. 

 There is then no positive test, standard, criterion, means of forming 

 an opinion. As distinct from vegetables, animals do not exist. 

 There is nothing to prove. Nothing could be proved to be good, 

 for instance. There is nothing in our "existence" that is good, in a 

 positive sense, or as really outlined from evil. If to forgive be good 

 in times of peace, it is evil in wartime. There is nothing to prove: 

 good in our experience is continuous with, or is only another aspect 

 of evil. 



As to what I'm trying to do now I accept only. If I can't see 

 universally, I only localize. 



So, of course then, that nothing ever has been proved: 



That theological pronouncements are as much open to doubt 

 as ever they were, but that, by a hypnotizing process, they became 

 dominant over the majority of minds in their era; 



That, in a succeeding era, the laws, dogmas, formulas, principles, 

 of materialistic science never were proved, because they are only 

 localizations simulating the universal; but that the leading minds 

 of their era of dominance were hypnotized into more or less firmly 

 believing them. 



Newton's three laws, and that they are attempts to achieve posi- 

 tiveness, or to defy and break Continuity, and are as unreal as are 

 all other attempts to localize the universal: 



