DOCS. 559-561 JUNE
1918 581
With best
wishes for
a
complete recovery
of
your
health,
your very
devoted
servants,
Anschütz
&
Co.
560. To Adolf
Kneser
Berlin, 5
Haberland
St.,
7
June
1918
Highly
esteemed
Colleague,[1]
Thank
you
for
sending me your original
and
inspired lectures.[2]
In them
one
thing
did
pain
me,
though,
which
I
do
not want
to
pass over
in silence.
It hurts
me
when
my name
and
my
work
are
abused
for
chauvinistic
propaganda,[3]
as
has
been
happening frequently
in recent
times. This is out of
place
even
objectively.
I
am
by
heritage a
Jew, by citizenship
a Swiss,
and
by mentality
a
human
being,
and
only
a
human
being,
without
any special
attachment
to
any
state
or
national
entity
whatsoever. If
only
I
could have said
this
to
you
before
you
held
your
lectures!
You
would
certainly
have had
enough
consideration for
my feelings
to
omit
the
relevant utterances.
In utmost
respect,
A.
Einstein.
561. To
Felix Klein
[Berlin,
9
June
1918][1]
Esteemed
Colleague,
It
pleases
me
very
much
that
you
are
going
to
give a
talk
on
my energy
paper.[2]
I
provide you
now
with
the
complete proof
for
the
tensor
character
(for
linear
transformations)
of
Ja.[3]
1/-gUvo
is
a
tensor for linear
transformations,
thus also
hl"dxidx2dx3dx4
= Ava,
...
(1)
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