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TO THE SCHOOLCHILDREN OF JAPAN 17
CONGRATULATIONS TO A CRITIC
Mein Weltbild, Amsterdam: Querido Verlag, 1934.
To see with one's own eyes, to feel and judge without succumbing
to the suggestive power of the fashion of the day, to
be able to express what one has seen and felt in a trim sentence
or even in a cunningly wrought word-is that not glorious?
Is it not a proper subject for congratulation?
TO THE SCHOOLCIllLDREN OF JAPAN
Einstein visited Japan in 1922. This message published
in Mein Weltbild, Amsterdam: Querido Verlag, 1934.
In sending this greeting to you Japanese schoolchildren, I
can lay claim to a special right to do so. For I have myself visited
your beautiful country, seen its cities and houses, its mountains
and woods, and the Japanese boys who had learned to love their
country for its beauty. A big fat book full of colored drawings
by Japanese children lies always on my table.
If you get my message of greeting from all this distance, remember
that ours is the first age in history to bring about
friendly and understanding intercourse between people of different
nationalities; in former times nations passed their lives
in mutual igoorance, and in fact in hatred or fear of one another.
May the spirit of brotherly understanding gain more and
more ground among them. With this in mind I, an old man,
greet you Japanese schoolchildren from afar and 'hope that your
generation may some day put mine to shame.