There had never been any lack of admiration for Professor Einstein. Anybody who. could ar-vive at a theory—two theories, in fact, a special and a general one—which only the elect, and not all of them could grasp, deserved a'! the applause possible, and he has received it. But Professor Einstein is an even greater man than one might have suspected, for he has now announced that for the life of him he cannot comprehend why ordinary people should bother their heads about relativity. He put it thus to the numerous jour-rialists who sought to interview him shortly after his arrival in Japan: "I cannot understand why there should be any interest in relativity or in myself outside of the circle of scientists." Truly the generous sentiment of a rear soul. and if he had only given utterance to it months ago what a load would have been removed from people's minds. The gunner would have been spared dreadful i hag-ridden by thoughts that his ideas on high angle fire had Geen knocked on the head by this new scheme of things, and the rifle shot been equally blessed in that he would have had no additional worry over trajectories. The rest. of the people could have sunk back into the somnolence which was their intellectual lot before the business of relativity started to unnerve them. But better late than never, and the knowledge that the average man can get along nicely without any knowledge, much less comprehension of the theory, is one of the great comte-_ts of the dying year, and the best of all good theories.
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