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'Fitness,' then, is only another name for 'survival.'

There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. Weakness and stupidity everywhere survive.

The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.

But, if in Continuity, all things do merge, by Realness, I mean the Universal, besides which there is nothing with which to merge. By a real hero, we mean one who is not partly a coward, or whose actions and motives do not merge away into cowardice.

By Realness, I mean that which does not merge away into something else, and that which is not partly something else: that which is not a reaction to, or an imitation of, something else.

But Truth is that besides which there is nothing: nothing to modify it, nothing to question it, nothing to form an exception: the all-inclusive, the complete-By Truth I mean the Universal.

Scientists who have thought that they were seeking Truth, but who were trying to find out astronomic, or chemic, or biologic truths.

When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.

It is our expression that the flux between that which isn't and that which won't be, or the state that is commonly and absurdly called 'existence,' is a rhythm of heavens and hells: that the damned won't stay damed that salvation only precedes perdition.

We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.īattalions of the accursed, captained by pallid data that I have exhumed, will march. The Book of The Damned (1919) The Book of The Damned (1919) online text at The Book of The Damned online text at PDF at Google Books Quotes The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.

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