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IDEAS AND OPINIL\NS
to him; he based its right to demand sacrifices of the individual
entirely on its duty to give the individual personality a chance
of harmonious development.
GREETING TO GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
On the occasion of a visit of Einstein's to England in 1930.
This message was published in Mein Weltbild, Amsterdam:
Querida Verlag, 1934.
There are few enough people with sufficient independence
to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and
remain themselves untouched by them. And these isolated few
usually soon lose their zeal for putting things to rights when
they have come face to face with human obduracy. Only to a
tiny minority is it given to fascinate their generation by subtle
humor and grace and to hold the mirror up to it by the impersonal
agency of art. Today I salute with sincere emotion the
supreme master of this method, who has delighted-and educated-us
all.
IN HONOR OF ARNOLD BERLINER'S
SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY
From Die Naturwissenschaften, Vol. 20, p. 913, 1932. Berliner,
a German physicist, was editor of that weekly from
1913 to 1935, when, as a Jew, he was deposed by the Nazi
regime. Seven years later at the age of eighty, about to be
deported, Berliner committed suicide.
I should like to take this opportunity of telling my friend
llerliner and the readers of this periodical why I rate him and
his work so highly. It has to be done here because it is our only
chance of getting such things said; our training in objectivity
has led to a tabu on everything personal, which we mortals may
only transgress on quite exceptional occasions such as this.