CHAPTER XI 



ONE of the dam-dest in our whole saturnalia of the accursed 

 Because it is hopeless to try to shake off an excommunica- 

 tion only by saying that we're damned by blacker things than our- 

 selves; and that the damned are those who admit they're of the 

 damned. Inertia and hypnosis are too strong for us. We say that: 

 then we go right on admitting we're of the damned. It is only by 

 being more nearly real that we can sweep away the quasi-things that 

 oppose us. Of course, as a whole, we have considerable amorphous- 

 ness, but we are thinking now of "individual" acceptances. Wide- 

 ness is an aspect of Universalness or Realness. If our syntheses dis- 

 regard fewer data than do opposing syntheses which are often not 

 syntheses at all, but mere consideration of some one circumstance 

 less widely synthetic things fade away before us. Harmony is an 

 aspect of the Universal, by which we mean Realness. If we approxi- 

 mate more highly to harmony among the parts of an expression and 

 to all available circumstances of an occurrence, the self-contradictors 

 turn hazy. Solidity is an aspect of realness. We pile them up, and 

 we pile them up, or they pass and pass and pass: things that bulk 



large as they march by, supporting and solidifying one another 



And still, and for regiments to come, hypnosis and inertia rule 



One of the dam-dest of our data: 



In the Scientific American, Sept. 10, 1910, Charles F. Holder 

 writes: 



"Many years ago, a strange stone resembling a meteorite, fell 

 into the Valley of the Yaqui, Mexico, and the sensational story went 

 from one end to the other of the country that a stone bearing hu- 

 man inscriptions had descended to the earth." 



The bewildering observation here is Mr. Holder's assertion that 

 this stone did fall. It seems to me that he must mean that it fell 

 by dislodgment from a mountain side into a valley but we shall see 

 that it was such a marked stone that very unlikely would it have 

 been unknown to dwellers in a valley, if it had been reposing upon 

 a mountain side above them. It may have been carelessness: intent 



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