"I used to throw them out," Whipple said; "but now I keep them under a special file labeled 'squirrel food'". "Acceptance by present day teaching professors is not important," says Maciver.

The energy ray of the sun, Maciver states, consists of molecules. It is also the spirit of God. The rays are drawn into the human body, mainly through the lungs, where they form the basis for all bodily activity.

"The energy ray of the sun mixed with stomach juices," says Cosmography, provides the "vitamin of health."

Maciver states unequivocally that the sun is fixed in space below the earth. The earth, he says, is supported by an ascending pillar of radiation coming from the sun which has never changed in position since the time of creation. The earth is cradled in this pillar and rotates daily.

The sun, he states, is shaped like an inverted funnel, and is absolutely cold. Heat and light occur only when the sun's rays strike the atmosphere. Maciver admits that he was hesitant about discarding long established scientific theories. He believes he knows, however, why so many scientists before him went astray.

"Reasoning from a known conclusion," he explains, "in the effort to establish a premise that would fit in with proved observations has been the cause of much confusion."

Clean and Unclean

Numerous passages referring to "atheistic Slavs" and "syphilitic reinfection" attracted Riecken's attention. He explained that there is a tendency in certain mental cases to divide the world into the clean and the unclean, the deceased and the pure.

In "Cosmography 1930" Maciver declares that the tropics are inferior to the temperate zones. In the tropics, he says, "degeneration of mind sets in quickly and those who loudly proclaim their equality are usually the victims of syphilitic blood, miscegenation, or other things that lower the standard of ethical conduct."

Climatic shifts offer hope for such people, Maciver explains. For instance, the inhabitants of the Laurentian hills are now "superstitious and disease ridden" because their climate is too cold.

As the hills move south to a temperate zone these primitive folk will give way to a people "who will crave the blessing of God untinctured with the curse of the village priest."

"The children of syphilitic parents or grandparents," he warns, "are never born equal to the child of clean blood." He inveighs against "the whining ingrate, the campus trollop of either sex, and the cinema degenerates, using pep hills to enliven their dreariness."

"There must have been a lot of syphilitic reinfection to produce Marx and his followers--and Freud with an atrophied brain lobe," concludes Maciver in his es- say on monetary matters. This essay is the last of the five "worksheets" which comprise "The Philosophers Worksheet," distributed in 1948 and 1949 as a supplement to his original book.

Maciver is convinced that "time and publicity" will determine the truth of his theories. Despite discouragement he continues to publicize his works because, he says, "I decided that I would like to justify my existence and do some honor to my father."

"Whether the theory is accepted now or later is not greatly important," Maciver wrote in 1944. "It does not lift the curse of war from humanity and that today is the only important matter.