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to
them.[4] Initially
my
local
colleagues
were
also
suspicious
but
were
convinced
by
the
soundness of
the
experiments.
I read
with
great pleasure your
essay
on
medical
confidentiality,
whereas
I
have not
yet
found time
to study
the other
paper you
sent.[5]
Read
the
remarkable
little
book
J’accuse, recently published
by
Payot &
Co.,
Lausanne.[6]
It
delights
me
that
you
have had
some success
in
your
institute
affair.
I
am
very eager
to
take in
some
Zurich air
again,
even
though my
life
here
is
ideally pleasant
if
you
disregard things
that
actually
have
nothing
in
the
least to do with
me.
I
have read
your paper
on
exposure
risk
now
and
understood
most of
it.[7]
I
must
confess,
though,
that
the
style
does not
seem
appropriate
to
me.
For
such
an
essay
to
get sluggish
citizens into
action,
it must be much
more graphic
and
must
capture
the
emotions
as
well.
Right
at
the
beginning,
the
person
should
feel
that
he
really
is
obliged
to take
the
trouble, by having
him
feel
acutely
the
full
extent of
the
ills to
be combatted. I consider it
unproductive
to
present
instead
an
accumulation
of abstract, pithy
distinctions.
People
must react to
so
much these
days
that
mere
allusions
will
always
remain
unfruitful,
because
they will not
be
developed by
the
reader.
Put
yourself
in
the
place
of
the
person
forever in
a
hurry
in
whose
hands
such
an
article
falls.-Do
not take
offense
at
my
candor.- If
you
would
like
a
bit
of harmless
amusement,
read
the
booklet
published by
Reclam
by Macaulay
on
Freder.
the
Gr. One would be
tempted
to add
the
motto:
Like
father,
like
son.[8]
Affectionate
greetings, yours,
Einstein.
87. To Walter Dällenbach
Berlin,
31
May
[1915][1]
Dear
Dällenbach,[2]
Your
letter
delighted me, especially
since
I
can see
from it
that
you
have
remained
loyal
to
physics despite
the
orientation
of
your responsibilities
toward
engineering.[3]
You
will
find
a
full
description
of
the
experiment
conducted with
de Haas
on
the
nature
of
the
magnetism
of molecules
in
one
of
the
most
re-
cent
numbers
of
the
Berichte der Deutsch.
Phys. Gesellschaft (issue
in
a
yellow
jacket).[4]
I
have
not
received
the
offprints yet.
On
the
horrendous times
only
this: Be
glad
and
proud
that
you
are
Swiss! Now
to scientific matters.
It
is
not clear to
me
what
question you
had in mind
regarding
the
molecular
cur-
rents
analysis.
The
capillarity problem,
where aside from
gravitation
other
forces
originating
from
an
electrical
field
are
also at
play,
is
naturally mathematically