Clip - Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned. Spoiler.. we who are not exclusionists are the damned!

The Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work by American author Charles Fort. Concerning various types of anomalous phenomena including UFOs, strange falls of both organic and inorganic materials from the sky, odd weather patterns, the possible existence of creatures generally believed to be mythological, disappearances of people, and many other phenomena, the book is considered to be the first of the specific topic of anomalistics.

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A PROCESSION of the damned.
By the damned, I mean the excluded.
We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.
Battalions of the accursed, captained by pallid data that I have
exhumed, will march. You'll read them-or they'll march. Some
of them livid and some of them fiery and some of them rotten.
Some of them are corpses, skeletons, mummies, twitching, tottering,
animated by companions that have been damned alive. There
are giants that will walk by, though sound asleep. There are things
that are theorems and things that are rags: they'll go by like
Euclid arm in arm with the spirit of anarchy. Here and there
will flit little harlots. Many are clowns. But many are of the
highest respectability. Some are assassins. There are pale stenches
and gaunt superstitions and mere shadows and lively malices: whims
and amiabilities. The naive and the pedantic and the bizarre and
the grotesque and the sincere and the insincere, the profound and
the puerile.
A stab and a laugh and the patiently folded hands of hopeless
propriety.
The ultra-respectable, but the condemned, anyway.
The aggregate appearance is of dignity and dissoluteness: the aggregate
voice is a defiant prayer: but the spirit of the whole is pro­cessional.
The power that has said to all these things that they are damned,
is Dogmatic Science.
But they'll march.
The little harlots will caper, and freaks will distract attention,
and the clowns will break the rhythm of the whole with their buffooneries-but
the solidity of the procession as a whole: the impressiveness
of things that pass and pass and pass, and keep on and
keep on and keep on coming.

The irresistibleness of things that neither threaten nor jeer nor
defy, but arrange themselves in mass-formations that pass and pass
keep on passing.
So, by the damned, I mean the excluded.
But by the excluded I mean that which will some day be the
excluding.
Or everything that is, won't be.
And everything that isn't, will be-
But, of course, will be that which won't be-
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 damned; that salvation only precedes perdition.
The inference is that some day our accursed tatterdemalions will
be sleek angels. Then the sub-inference is that some later day,
back they'll go whence they came.
It is our expression that nothing can attempt to be, except by
attempting to exclude something else: that that which is commonly
called "being" is a state that is wrought more or less definitely
proportionately to the appearance of positive difference between
that which is included and that which is excluded.
But it is our expression that there are no positive differences:
that all things are like a mouse and a bug in the heart of a cheese.
Mouse and a bug: no two things could seem more unlike. They're
there a week, or they stay there a month: both are then only transmutations
of cheese. I think we're all bugs and mice, and are only
different expressions of an all-inclusive cheese.
Or that red is not positively different from yellow: is only another
degree of whatever vibrancy yellow is a degree of:
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