BOOK OF THE DAMNED 37 



is not for Truth, but for the local that is true not to universalize 

 the local but to localize the universal or to give to a cosmic cloud 

 absolute interpretation in terms of the little dusty roads and lanes 

 of Wessex. I can not conceive that this can be done: I think of 

 high approximation. 



Our Intermediatist concept is that, because of the continuity of 

 all "things," which are not separate, positive, or real things, all 

 pseudo-things partake of the underlying, or are only different ex- 

 pressions, degrees, or aspects of the underlying: so then that a sample 

 from somewhere in anything must correspond with a sample from 

 somewhere in anything else. 



That, by due care in selection, and disregard for everything else, 

 or the scientific and theological method, the substance that fell, Feb- 

 ruary, 1903, could be identified with anything, or with some part 

 or aspect of anything that could be conceived of 



With sand from the Sahara, sand from a barrel of sugar, or dust 

 of your great, great grandfather. 



Different samples are described and listed hi the Journal of the 

 Royal Meteorological Society, 30-57 or we'll see whether my notion 

 that a chemist could have identified some one of these samples as 

 from anywhere conceivable, is extreme or not: 



"Similar to brick dust," in one place; "buff or light brown,* in 

 another place; "chocolate-colored and silky to the touch and slightly 

 iridescent"; "gray"; "red-rust color"; "reddish raindrops and gray 

 sand"; "dirty gray"; "quite red"; "yellow-brown, with a tinge of 

 pink"; "deep yellow-clay color." 



In Nature, it is described as of a peculiar yellowish cast in 

 one place, reddish somewhere else, and salmon-colored in another 

 place. 



Or there could be real science if there were really anything to be 

 scientific about. 



Or the science of chemistry is like a science of sociology, preju- 

 diced in advance, because only to see is to see with a prejudice, 

 setting out to "prove" that all inhabitants of New York came from 

 Africa. 



Very easy matter. Samples from one part of town. Disregard 

 for all the rest. 



There is no science but Wessex-science. 



According to our acceptance, there should be no other, but that 

 approximation should be higher: that metaphysics is super-evil: that 

 the scientific spirit is of the cosmic quest. 



