Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2217

Poem in Ian Crawford MacCallum’s hand penciled in the back of the 1938-1939 Directory of the University of Virginia, where there are also pencilings by Heath. Authorship unknown, whether by Heath and dictated to MacCallum, or by someone else. But the subject relates to Heath’s philosophy of science (his epistemology, though he didn’t like that term); so the probability seems to be that MacCallum, Heath’s son-in-law, took it down from him.

 

 

 

 

The world in darkness lay

     All was night

God said, “Let Newton be”

     (and) There was light.

Seeing the light of Newton, the Devil

     said, “No!

Let Einstein be and restore the

     status quo.”

 

 

 

 

/Two of the other pencilings, in Heath’s hand:/

 

 

Federal Reserve — The political Camel’s Head into the tent of voluntary exchange.

 

Plannng by compulsion.  Humanized   Benevolent despotism Jefferson