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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... translated these sentiments into any form of organized protest. He had taken no stand on public issues, nor had he been engaged in civic affairs or political action. The outbreak of the First World War, in August 1914, had a large ...
... translated these sentiments into any form of organized protest. He had taken no stand on public issues, nor had he been engaged in civic affairs or political action. The outbreak of the First World War, in August 1914, had a large ...
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... translations were published in French, Swedish, Danish, Finnish and English (both in England and the United States). According to Julio Álvarez del Vayo, later Foreign Minister of the Spanish Republic during the Civil War and an ...
... translations were published in French, Swedish, Danish, Finnish and English (both in England and the United States). According to Julio Álvarez del Vayo, later Foreign Minister of the Spanish Republic during the Civil War and an ...
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... translate the Rolland appeal into action. To a liberal professor in Potsdam, Germany, he wrote on August 17, 1919: ...I was not among the authors who drafted the appeal. Being only too well aware of the bitterness prevalent in the ...
... translate the Rolland appeal into action. To a liberal professor in Potsdam, Germany, he wrote on August 17, 1919: ...I was not among the authors who drafted the appeal. Being only too well aware of the bitterness prevalent in the ...
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... translate Einstein's remarks into English: When those who are bound together by pacifist ideals hold a meeting they are usually consorting only with their own kind. They are like sheep huddled together while wolves wait outside. I ...
... translate Einstein's remarks into English: When those who are bound together by pacifist ideals hold a meeting they are usually consorting only with their own kind. They are like sheep huddled together while wolves wait outside. I ...
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... translated his convictions on peace and other social issues into concrete action. In 1929, when death sentences were pronounced against anti-Jewish Arab rioters in Palestine, he supported the War Resisters' International in its effort ...
... translated his convictions on peace and other social issues into concrete action. In 1929, when death sentences were pronounced against anti-Jewish Arab rioters in Palestine, he supported the War Resisters' International in its effort ...
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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