A patient of Darlington's was worried about his false teeth. He feared that after death he would have to stand before Jesus Christ either without teeth or with false teeth. Darlington generalizes: 'Some portion of the crippled and deformed men who return from the war will come to entertain the fear that when they die they will meet the crowning humiliation of seeing the door of heaven slammed in their faces even as the doors of factories and offices in many instances will already have been slammed', and takes this as a starting point for anthropological speculations. He collects interesting data on the identification of the palate with heaven and stories about teeth having been knocked out by lightning. Among the Kenyah of Borneo, thunderstones are the teeth of the god of lightning. Among the Babylonians, Greeks and Latins the same word is used for the palate of the mouth and for the sky. The Latin mundus