608 DOCS.
582,
583
JULY
1918
with
my
procurement
of
the
literature,
but
I
do believe
that,
bit
by
bit, I
have
received all
the
essential
ones
nonetheless.
Please send
me
whatever
you
have
published
since
the
“Cosmological
Considerations”[4]
as
well.
My
wife
told
me
with
great
delight
about
your
visit
last
summer,
but
unfor-
tunately
also
that
you
were
not
quite
in
good
health.[5] I
hope you
are completely
recovered
again
now.
As
far
as
I
am
concerned,
I
have
absolutely
no reason
to
complain.
In
virtually
all
respects,
I
am
doing
better
here
than
in
Vienna.[6]
The
air,
above
all,
is
so
good
here
that
all
my acquaintances
are
astonished
at
how
well
I
look.
The
diet
I
am
provided
with here
is
better than what the
great
majority
of
other
people
unfortunately
have. And
so
my ability
to work
is
maintained
to
such
a
degree
that
every day
is
too
short
for
me.
I
am a
21|2-hour
train
ride
away
from
Vienna, yet,
I
have had visitors from Vienna
every week,
up
to
now.
In
short,
in
this
topsy-turvy
world
we now
live
in,
it
is
in
actual fact
considerably
nicer
intra
muros
than
extra.
With
cordial
regards, yours,
Fr. Adler.
583. From
Adolf
Kneser
Breslau, 11
Hohenlohe
St.,
7 July
1918
Highly
esteemed
Colleague,
I
deeply
regret
that
some
of
my
statements have evoked in
you
pained feel-
ings;[1]
however,
even now
neither
can
I
look
upon
these
statements
as
factually
unjustified,
nor
even
acknowledge
that
I
should have refrained from these
state-
ments out of consideration
for
your personal
views.
Absolutely
nothing is
said,
at
the
relevant
places
in
my speech,
about
your
views;
but it
obviously
remains
a
fact
that
your
brilliant
discoveries
were
made in
Germany
during
the
war,
where
you
are
being
granted protection
and leisure for scientific research. So
you
must
submit
to
having your
researches credited to
Germany
and ranked
as
part
of the
German
peace
effort behind
the frontline.
It
sincerely pleases me
that
you
did not take
part
in
the
exodus of
many
Swiss
scholars,
who
left
Germany
as
if
abandoning
a
ship
thought
to be
sinking.
I believe
I
may
conclude from
this that
you yourself felt, consciously or
unconsciously,
that
Germany
is
the
safest location for
your
scientific research.
In
enemy
countries
you
would not
by any means
have been allowed to
profess your convictions,
set