Einstein on Peace“Einstein was not only the ablest man of science of his generation, he was also a wise man, which is something different. If statesmen had listened to him, the course of human events would have been less disastrous than it has been.” This verdict, from the Preface by Bertrand Russell, sums up the importance of this first collection of Albert Einstein’s writings on war, peace, and the atom bomb. In this volume, thanks to the Estate of Albert Einstein, the complete story is told of how one of the greatest minds of modern times worked from 1914 until 1955 on the problem of peace. It is a fascinating record of a man’s courage, his sincerity, and his concern for those who survive him. This book is also a history of the peace movement in modern times. Here are letters to and from some of the most famous men of his generation, including the correspondence between Einstein and Sigmund Freud on aggression and war, and the true story of his famous letter to President Roosevelt reporting the theoretical possibility of nuclear fission. It is the living record of more than forty years of Einstein’s untiring struggle to mobilize forces all over the world for the abolition of war and the creation of a supranational organization to solve conflicts among nations. |
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... Romain Rolland,{11} who lived in neutral Switzerland and with whom he had not been acquainted before: Through the press and through my association with the stalwart Bund Neues Vaterland, I have learned how valiantly you have committed ...
... Romain Rolland,{11} who lived in neutral Switzerland and with whom he had not been acquainted before: Through the press and through my association with the stalwart Bund Neues Vaterland, I have learned how valiantly you have committed ...
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... Romain Rolland to which eventually more than 100 intellectuals lent their signatures:{23} Brain workers, comrades, scattered throughout the world, kept apart for five years by the armies, the censorship and the mutual hatred of the ...
... Romain Rolland to which eventually more than 100 intellectuals lent their signatures:{23} Brain workers, comrades, scattered throughout the world, kept apart for five years by the armies, the censorship and the mutual hatred of the ...
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... Romain Rolland's sister, Madeleine, in the name of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, asked him to sponsor an international summer seminar for young people in Italy, he replied, on February 15, 1922: I scarcely need ...
... Romain Rolland's sister, Madeleine, in the name of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, asked him to sponsor an international summer seminar for young people in Italy, he replied, on February 15, 1922: I scarcely need ...
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... Romain Rolland's sixtieth birthday fell on January 29, 1926. Einstein was among those invited by Maxim Gorki, Stefan Zweig and Georges Duhamel to contribute to a Liber Amicorum, a “Book of Friends,” to be presented to Rolland in ...
... Romain Rolland's sixtieth birthday fell on January 29, 1926. Einstein was among those invited by Maxim Gorki, Stefan Zweig and Georges Duhamel to contribute to a Liber Amicorum, a “Book of Friends,” to be presented to Rolland in ...
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... Romain Rolland wrote to Einstein on September 30, 1930, soliciting a contribution to a “Golden Book” to be presented to the Hindu poet Rabindranath Tagore on the occasion of his seventieth birthday the following May. Tagore had recently ...
... Romain Rolland wrote to Einstein on September 30, 1930, soliciting a contribution to a “Golden Book” to be presented to the Hindu poet Rabindranath Tagore on the occasion of his seventieth birthday the following May. Tagore had recently ...
Contents
CHAPTER SIXTHE EVE OF FASCISM IN GERMANY | |
CHAPTER SEVENADVENT OF NAZISM AND ADVOCACY | |
CHAPTER EIGHTARRIVAL IN AMERICA | |
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CHAPTER NINEBIRTH OF THE ATOMIC AGE 1939 | |
CHAPTER TENTHE SECOND WORLD WAR 19391945 | |
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