That lovable doubter of scientific verities, Charles Fort, died on May 3, 1932. He collected oddities which seemed to cast doubt on popular science. His was discriminating intellect which his followers seem to lack. In the following excerpt from his Book of the Damned, his reasons for rejecting a coin proposed to be ancient in origin, are mentioned:
"...with due disregard, you can find signs of your great grandmother, or of the Crusades, or of the Mayans, upon anything that ever came from Chillicothe or from a five and ten cent store. Anything that looks like a cat and a gold fish looks like Leo and Pisces: but, by due suppressions and distortions there's nothing that can't be made to look like a cat and a gold fish. I fear me we're turning a little irritable here. To be damned by slumbering giants and interesting little harlots and clowns who rank high in their profession is at least supportable to our vanity; but, we find that the anthropologists are of the slums of the divine, or of an archaic kindergarten of intellectuality, and it is very unflattering to find a mess of moldy infants sitting in judgment upon us."
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