From Doubt 20 (ca. March 1948):
“With this issue of DOUBT the Fortean Society actively assumes leadership of the entire human race. We have fiddled around long enough.
"The natural state of man is Forteanal. Every child born is a Fortean until selfish or stupid adults kick it out of him. The jolly part of that is that adults practically never succeed entirely in perverting youth to the usances [sic] and follies, to their rituals, faiths and dogmas, and thus even the most profoundly hypnotized enlisted man, and even the most self-centered husband-seeking chit, remains some part a Fortean.
“This phenomenon has the cheery double effect of being responsible for all that can properly be called progress in this world, and of making us Forteans far and away the most numerous clan on Earth. Since we are the most numerous, the most sensible, the most estimable of all people, we stand in no need to take any guff from any minority whatsoever: and--as Secretary to this most exalted order--the present writer hereby makes a matter of public record the fact that we are not going to take any more nonsense from anybody.
“The Fortean Society receives its mandate directly from the mouths and minds of the people. Every man, woman and child--and every intermediate between those categories--who ever has said in any tongue (or who ever has thought, without saying), ‘I DON’T BELIEVE IT’--has, by that token, appointed the Fortean Society spokesman and mouthpiece, defender of ver doubt."
“With this issue of DOUBT the Fortean Society actively assumes leadership of the entire human race. We have fiddled around long enough.
"The natural state of man is Forteanal. Every child born is a Fortean until selfish or stupid adults kick it out of him. The jolly part of that is that adults practically never succeed entirely in perverting youth to the usances [sic] and follies, to their rituals, faiths and dogmas, and thus even the most profoundly hypnotized enlisted man, and even the most self-centered husband-seeking chit, remains some part a Fortean.
“This phenomenon has the cheery double effect of being responsible for all that can properly be called progress in this world, and of making us Forteans far and away the most numerous clan on Earth. Since we are the most numerous, the most sensible, the most estimable of all people, we stand in no need to take any guff from any minority whatsoever: and--as Secretary to this most exalted order--the present writer hereby makes a matter of public record the fact that we are not going to take any more nonsense from anybody.
“The Fortean Society receives its mandate directly from the mouths and minds of the people. Every man, woman and child--and every intermediate between those categories--who ever has said in any tongue (or who ever has thought, without saying), ‘I DON’T BELIEVE IT’--has, by that token, appointed the Fortean Society spokesman and mouthpiece, defender of ver doubt."
