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upon a road, where it was stamped out by a crowd of villagers, 

 see Kept. Brit. Assoc., 1874-272. 



The power of the exclusionists lies in that in their stand are 

 combined both modern and archaic systematists. Falls of sand- 

 stone and limestone are repulsive to both theologians and scientists. 

 Sandstone and limestone suggest other worlds upon which occur 

 processes like geological processes; but limestone, as a fossiliferous 

 substance, is of course especially of the unchosen. 



In Science, March 9, 1888, we read of a block of limestone, said 

 to have fallen near Middleburgh, Florida. It was exhibited at the 

 Sub-tropical Exposition, at Jacksonville. The writer, in Science, 

 denies that it fell from the sky. His reasoning is: 



There is no limestone in the sky; 



Therefore this limestone did not fall from the sky. 



Better reasoning I can not conceive of because we see that a 

 final major premise universal true would include all things: 

 that, then, would leave nothing to reason about so then that all 

 reasoning must be based upon "something" not universal, or only a 

 phantom intermediate to the two finalities of nothingness and all- 

 ness, or negativeness and positiveness. ^ 



La Nature, 1890-2-127: 



Fall, at Pel-et-Der (L' Aube) France, June 6, 1890, of limestone 

 pebbles. Identified with limestone at Chateau Landon or up and 

 down in a whirlwind. But they fell with hail which, in June, 

 could not very well be identified with ice from Chateau-Landon. 

 Coincidence, perhaps. 



Upon page 70, Science Gossip, 1887, the Editor says, of a stone 

 that was reported to have fallen at Little Lever, England, that a 

 sample had been sent to him. It was sandstone. Therefore it 

 had not fallen, but had been on the ground in the first place. But, 

 upon page 140, Science Gossip, 1887, is an account of "a large, 

 smooth, waterworn, gritty sandstone pebble" that had been found in 

 the wood of a full-grown beech tree. Looks to me as if it had 

 fallen red-hot, and had penetrated the tree with high velocity. 

 But I have never heard of anything falling red-hot from a 

 whirlwind 



The wood around this standstone pebble was black, as if charred. 



Dr. Farrington, for instance, in his books, does not even mention 

 sandstone. However, the British Association, though reluctant, is 

 less exclusive: Report of 1860, p. 197: substance about the size 

 of a duck's egg, that fell at Raphoe, Ireland, June 9, 1860 date 



