Charles Hoy Fort was an American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena.
Jerome Clark writes that Fort was "essentially a satirist hugely skeptical of human beings'
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“If "mass psychology" applies definitely to one occurrence, it must, even though almost imperceptibly, apply to all occurrences.”
Charles Fort
“There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.”
“Phenomena of a man alone on a desert island can be explained in terms of "mass psychology" - inasmuch as the mind of no man is a unit, but is a community of mental states that influence one another.”
“In 1859, the thing to do was to accept Darwinism; now many biologists are revolting and trying to conceive of something else.”
“All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it.”
“A good many brats are brought up, in the straight and narrow, somewhat deviously.”
“The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me.”
“It is not possible to define. Nothing has ever been finally found out. Because there is nothing final to find out.”