DOCS.
364,
365
JULY
1917 361
Thus, please forgive
me
for
being
so
forward
as
to send
you
these
papers,
both
of which
were
published
a
while
ago,
and for
asking
you
to read them.
I
am
fully
aware
that
I
am
directing my
letter
and
my request
to
one
of
the
greatest
minds
of all time.
I
do
so,
since
I
dare to consider
my philosophical
ideas
worthy
of
your
attention.
To
me, your personal
attention
naturally is
equivalent
to
a
large
audience.
Yours
truly,
Dr Franz
Selety.
365. To
Heinrich
Zangger
[Lucerne,] Sunday.
[29
July
1917][1]
Dear friend
Zangger,
I
hope you
are more
or
less
recovered from
your nasty operation[2]
so
that
you
can
go
on
holiday
soon
with
your
family.
Take
the
Henle
along,[3]
with
which
you
brightened
my stay
in
Arosa;
I
placed
it
on
the table
in
the veranda
room.
I
am
feeling surprisingly well.[4]
The constant
outdoor
air and
the
good
care,
in
conjunction
with
the
comfortable, peaceful
existence,
are having
their
effect;
it
is
such
a
wholesome
feeling,
that
you
almost
slip away
into oblivion.
I
read
your
correction
proofs
and
enjoyed very
much
the
parts
that
deal
with
concrete
cases.[5]
But
I
did not
like
some
of
the abstract
parts; they
often
seem
to
me
to be
unnecessarily
opaque (general)
and
in
the
process
are
not worded
clearly
and
pointedly
enough (not every
word
is
placed clearly
and
consciously).
Nevertheless,
I
understood
everything;
it
may
well
be
possible
that
my
perpetual
ride
on my own hobbyhorse
and
the
conventions
at
the Patent
Office
have driven
my
standards
to
exaggerated heights
in this
regard.
In
any case,
I
hope
that
your
urgent warnings may
have
a
rehabilitative
effect;
the
examples
from
your
practice
show how
imperative
it
is.-
Albert
is
enjoying
himself
very
much.
Today
he
is
climbing
the
Schwalmis
with
my
brother-in-law;[6]
the
two of
them
have become
good
friends.
With heartfelt
wishes for
a
prompt
recovery
and
enjoyable holidays, yours,
Einstein.
I
subsequently
marked at random
on
the
correction
proof
some
places
that
seemed
unclear to
me so
that
you
see
what sorts of
things
I thought
objectionable (pp. 268,
69,
72).[7]
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