CHAPTER XXIV 



WE shall have an outcry of silences. If a single instance of 

 anything be disregarded by a System our own attitude is 

 that a single instance is a powerless thing. Of course our own 

 method of agreement of many instances is not a real method. In 

 Continuity, all things must have resemblances with all other things. 

 Anything has any quasi-identity you please. Some time ago con- 

 scription was assimilated with either autocracy or democracy with 

 equal facility. Note the need for a dominant to correlate to. 

 Scarcely anybody said simply that we must have conscription: but 

 that we must have conscription, which correlates with democracy/, 

 which was taken as a base, or something basically desirable. Of 

 course between autocracy and democracy nothing but false demarca- 

 tion can be drawn. So I can conceive of no subject upon which 

 there should be such poverty as a single instance, if anything one 

 pleases can be whipped into line. However, we shall try to be more 

 nearly real than the Darwinites who advance concealing coloration 

 as Darwinism, and then drag in proclaiming luminosity, too, as Dar- 

 winism. I think the Darwinites had better come in with us as to 

 the deep-sea fishes and be sorry later, I suppose. It will be amaz- 

 ing or negligible to read all the instances now to come of things 

 that have been seen in the sky, and to think that all have been 

 disregarded. My own opinion is that it is not possible, or very 

 easy, to disregard them, now that they have been brought together 

 but that, if prior to about this time we had attempted such an 

 assemblage, the Old Dominant would have withered our typewriter 

 as it is the letter "e" has gone back on us, and the "s" is tempera- 

 mental. 



"Most extraordinary and singular phenomenon," North Wales, 

 Aug. 26, 1894; a disk from which projected an orange-colored body 

 that looked like "an elongated flatfish," reported by Admiral Om- 

 manney (Nature, 50-524) ; disk from which projected a hook-like 

 form, India, about 1838; diagram of it given; disk about size of 

 the moon, but brighter than the moon; visible about twenty min- 

 utes; by G. Pettit, in Prof. Baden-Powell's Catalogue (Kept. Brit. 



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