DOCS.
638,
639
OCTOBER
1918 673
The
only
thing I
was
unable
to
grasp
in
your
paper
is
the
conclusion
at
the
top
of
page
8
that
ea
was
a
vector.[4]
Perhaps you
will
be
so
good
as
to fill
in
this
gap
for
me,
when
you
have
an
opportunity.
Best
regards,
yours very
truly,
A.
Einstein.
I
was
also
especially pleased
that
you
do
not
reject
the
tvo’s.[5]
At
first,
I
had
some
trouble in
understanding
your equation
(6).
The trick
is just
that,
with the
variation
method
you prefer,
6
d
(Sguv)
is true.[6]
dxa
puv
639. From Hans Mühsam[1]
Liège
II.
Military
Base
Hospital
II/126, 24
October
1918
Esteemed
Professor,
As
you
see
from
the
dateline,
I
have
joined
the
general
movement and
am
concentrated
at
a
strategical
position
of retreat.
How
long
we are
going
to
stay
here in
Liège[2]
also
depends
less
on
the
opportunity
to
practice
medicine
as
on
Wilson. Isn’t it
despicable
that thousands
of
young
human
lives
depend
on
the
haggling
of
the
ruling powers,
on
their
willingness
to
respond
more or
less
quickly,
and
on
their
double-dealing intrigues?-[3]
This wretched word
“justice”
has caused all
this
misfortune,
the
world
over.
One
person
defines
the
word
from his
point
of
view
and
another,
who has
a
different
worldview,
defines it
otherwise. And
both
sides
perhaps
do
not
even
have
the
goodwill
simply
to define
it
subjectively correctly.
If
justice
means
equal rights
for
all,
that
is
cause
enough
for
the
implementation
of
such
a
principle
necessarily
to
give
rise
to
quarreling
and
confusion. For
the natural
law of
organized
nature
claims
preferential
rights
for
the
strong. Although
the
Darwinian
assumption
of unlimited
genetic variability
cannot be
upheld,
the
thesis
of
the
survival and
expansion
of
the
better-adapted
variety and,
within
this
variety,
of the
fittest
individuals,
is
undisputed.
The
Norway
rat
has
supplanted
the
house rat,
in
violation
of hereditary
right,
and
among
other
animal
species
we see
such
phenomena by
the
hundreds. Thus also
the
intellectually
less astute
dark
peoples
from Oceania and America
were
driven
out
by
the
white
race
and
more or
less
deliberately
exterminated. This
is
a
pity,
but
it
is
in
keeping
with natural
law.
The
stronger,
fitter,
better
adapted
must