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Scudder Klyce (November 7 1879 born in Friendship, Tennessee, † died January 28th 1933 in Winchester, Massachusetts) was an American philosopher, scientist and naval officer. He became famous for his work, Universe, which attempted to accumulate the knowledge of mankind into a single book to collect and deliver a solution for all the problems of humanity.

Life
Klyce studied at the University of Arkansas. In his youth, served in the Spanish-American war, and participated in the Philippine campaign. In 1902 he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, where he later filed a post-graduate study for engineering. In 1908 he married Etheldreda Hovey († 1917). They had one son, Stephen Klyce. His second, (1917) closed marriage was with Laura Tilden Kent. They had two children, William and Dorothy Klyce Klyce. On 2 May 1907 was promoted to Commander according to the U.S. Navy. On 15 February 1912 he resigned to devote himself to the study of the foundations of science ( "investigation of foundations of science").

Estate
Klyce's estate was passed by his widow to the Library of Congress in 1933, where it is still available. It includes 16 boxes with 4800 items and is located in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress James Madison Building at First Street and Independence Avenue, Washington, DC 20540th. The discount includes published and unpublished scripts, magazine articles, and Klyce correspondences with contemporaries such as Robert Daniel Carmichael, James McKeen Cattell, Clarence Day, John Dewey, Waldo Frank, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, David Starr Jordan, Robert Andrews Taylor, Theodore William Richards, William Emerson Ritter und Upton Sinclair.

Klyce's Philosophical Work
Universe is Klyce's main work which he self-published in 1921. Universe is rapidly gaining the status of a cult book and is rumored to hold a secret which it still keeps. The book owes its cult status due to the peculiar and attached enormous popularity gap in philosophical and intellectual circles, while remaining extensively unread (from the first edition there are only 1,000 volumes). Universe is featured a couple of times in the comic universe DC. The character Anarky, from Batman, draws a heavy influence from Klyce, and the author makes some of Klyce's philosophy a part of Anarky's characteristics. Batman owns a personally signed addition with notes, but exchanges it with Scarecrow for some information. Universe claims to solve all issues related to the "why, how and what to solve" in science, religion, and philosophy. Issues with which the book is involved include astronomy, light, electricity, heat, chemicals, the spiritual union of the humanities, which Unzutreffendheit Newton's laws of biology, psychology, the correlation between ethics and economics, sociology, the various theories of language in relation to physics, cosmology, energy, matter. Klyce's second work, "Sins of Science" was published 1923. In it, Klyce says that the basics of science and religion should be separated. His chief concern of the book is to show how a man should be able to obtain happiness and success.

Works

 * Universe, 1921. (with three discharges of David Starr Jordan, John Dewey and Morris Llewellyn Cooke)
 * Sins of Science, 1925.
 * Dewey's Suppressed Psychology, 1928. (Correspondence with John Dewey)