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Published by Fall River Press, 2015
ISBN 10: 1435160053ISBN 13: 9781435160057
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Published by Sterling Publishing (NY), 2013
ISBN 10: 1454907762ISBN 13: 9781454907763
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Published by Random House Value Publishing, 1988
ISBN 10: 0517345803ISBN 13: 9780517345801
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Published by Princeton University Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 0691120943ISBN 13: 9780691120942
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Published by Princeton University Press, 2013
ISBN 10: 0691160201ISBN 13: 9780691160207
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Published by Fall River Press, 2013
ISBN 10: 1435160053ISBN 13: 9781435160057
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Published by Liberty Press, c.1954,, 1954
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Published by New York: Liberty Press, Inc., 1954
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Revised edition. Small octavo. Condition: DJ spine slightly age-darkened; else near fine in very good DJ. 316 pages.
Published by Liberty Press, 1954
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Supplemented & Revised Edition. With introductory letters by Einstein and Mann. A clean, unmarked copy.
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Published by Schocken Books, NY, 1968
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Published by Liberty Press, New York, 1954
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. Minor shelf wear to jacket. This is an early printing of the revised edition of Somerville's influential book. With introductions by Einstein and Mann.
Published by Literary Licensing, LLC, 2011
ISBN 10: 1258115352ISBN 13: 9781258115357
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Published by Simon and Schuster, 1960
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ISBN 10: 1258004038ISBN 13: 9781258004033
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Published by Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, Princeton
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Scarce 8 page pamphlet, the text of which was first published in the ATLANTIC Magazine in 1947. Presumably this item was published sometime between then and 1950 when the 'Emergency Committee' disbanded. A few pencil lines to the text, cover creased both vertically and horizontally. Modest edge wear, else a solid example of an uncommon Einstein publication. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 8 pages.
He revises the typescript of his interview with the War Resisters League, of which he was Honorary Chairman, and calls out William Randolph Hearst and the head of the press and film empire in Germany, who aided Hitler?s rise?On philosophy: ?The intellect without the emotions is insignificant?; On racism: ?The main thing is that minority groups should be allowed security in the community.? They ought to be ?accepted with friendliness as equal members??On the press: He criticizes William Randolph Heart by name, but says ?The freedom of the press is necessary, despite all the dangers or abuse that come with it.?.?On pacifism and peace keeping: ?A pacifist is one who believes in his heart that to go to war is beneath the dignity of a human being?, ?Society needs some form of organization, for security and protection in international life?, and ?An international police force?is almost absolutely necessary as one step toward achieving peace. Force, when used by an impartial third party to achieve law and order, it's not contrary to pacifism?.?This document has never previously been offered for sale and was acquired by us from the family that has had it all this timeEinstein was well known as a pacifist until Hitler?s rise to power. In 1930, on his second visit to America, he joined the War Resisters League and accepted the office of Honorary Chairman. Einstein spoke to the organization that year, saying, ?True pacifists must publicly declare in time of peace that they will not take up arms under any circumstances? even if only 2% of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, governments would be powerless, they would not dare send such a large number of people to jail.? The league then issued a pamphlet, ?Einstein on War Resistance,? that was widely read and discussed.Meanwhile, back in Germany, the rising Nazi movement found a convenient target in Einstein and relativity, branding the latter ?Jewish physics? and sponsoring conferences and book burnings to denounce Einstein and his theories. The Nazis even enlisted other physicists to denounce Einstein; ?One Hundred Authors Against Einstein? was published in 1931. When asked to comment on this denunciation of relativity by so many scientists, Einstein replied that to defeat relativity one did not need the word of 100 scientists, just one fact.In December 1932 Einstein decided to leave Germany. The reason: it became obvious to him that his life was in danger. A Nazi organization published a magazine with Einstein?s picture and the caption ?Not Yet Hanged? on the cover. There was even a price on his head. In January 1933, Einstein came to the United States to serve at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California as a visiting professor. The appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor took effect late that month, and Einstein decided he would not return to his home in Germany where he had been a professor at the Berlin Academy of Sciences. He would instead return to Europe and assess the situation from there. He and his wife Elsa returned by ship to Belgium in March 1933 to find that that their residences in Germany had been raided numerous times. Einstein accepted the fact that he could not return to Germany and turned in his passport to the German consulate; he also formally renounced his German citizenship. By the summer, Einstein learned that his name was on a list of assassination targets. He resided in Belgium for some months and then moved to England for a short period. On October 17, 1933, he returned to the US and took up a position at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in New Jersey. And there he remained until his death.On February 15, 1933, after Hitler had taken power but before Einstein learned that his homes had been raided, he granted an interview to the War Resisters League at the home of one of its officials, John Dorland. Dorland wanted the interview to be read aloud at the upcoming March 2 meeting of the members in Pasadena. He prepared a five page typescript of the interview and sent it to Einstein to review. As Dorland said in his cover letter to Einstein, ?Would you be kind enough to read it, and if the answers misrepresent you in any detail, may we request that you revise it in such particular, as we are very anxious to have these correct.? He also asked Einstein's permission to read the interview aloud.This is the original typescript of the Einstein interview, sent to Einstein by Dorland, complete with Einstein?s handwritten notations. It is the only such annotated interview of Einstein that we have seen, and it covers important topics.On page one, Einstein makes it clear he was not ready to abandon his resistance to war. ?The War Resisters,? he stated at the interview, ?are doing a fine work. They have done more than any other peace group. A strong organized minority who have declared themselves absolutely against war is very powerful.? Question from Dorland. ?Can we hope to convince everybody?? Answer: ?Oh no, we cannot convince everybody, but we do not need to. One strong man is worth much and has great influence, Individuals thoroughly convinced and small groups working earnestly are of the utmost value.? Q: ?In trying to arouse interest is it better to appeal to the intellect or the emotions?? A: ?To both; the intellect without the emotions is insignificant.?On page two, Einstein states that ?Public protests are very valuable?, as is control over munitions production. ?The private munitions business is a great threat to the peace of the world and there should be government control. Public opinion is not yet awake to the atrocities of the munitions firms.? Then Dorland changes the subject to ?race relations.? Einstein responded, ?The main thing is that minority groups should be allowed security in the community.? Then Einstein hand writes in some thoughts. If they are not afforded such security, ?they should isolate themselves from the rest of society,
An increasingly uncommon letter of Einstein on the role of religions, philosophy, peace, and the dangers of the atomic age (that he helped usher in)Albert Einstein believed that wars stood in the way of human progress, and he was a lifelong pacifist (though he did not believe in pacifism at any price or in all situations). He was also an active promoter of world peace, from the days of World War I right up to his death in 1955. In fact, one of his last acts before his death was to add his signature to a statement of nine scientists warning that the world risked universal annihilation unless the institution of war was abolished.?Knowing his stance, people from all over the world appealed to him to assist various causes consistent with these beliefs, and to give statements supporting individuals and groups that did so.Einstein was also not a member or follower of any organized religion. He considered himself a Jew, but was not a practicing Jew. And as for the Christian churches, he felt that it ?since Constantine has always favored the authoritarian State, as long as the State allows the Church to baptize and instruct the masses". Their conduct in the years up to World War II was worse than disappointing, he thought, as they made the devil?s bargain - the evil compromise - with the Hitler regime. Einstein addressed this saying, ?Since when can one make a pact with Christ and Satan at the same time?" He added, "The Church has always sold itself to those in power, and agreed to any bargain in return for immunity?If I were allowed to give advice to the Churches, I would tell them to begin with a conversion among themselves, and to stop playing power politics.? This idea of an evil compromise or devil's pact is central to his feelings about organized religion.There was one exception to his criticism of religions - the Quakers. Their community aims at purifying the Christian world and generating social reform by creating direct experience with God, without intervention of clergy or other expressions of church. The Quakers greatly influenced science and industry, and their community is noted for the pursuit of peace and non-violence. Thus Einstein?s views fit into their belief system. ?If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker,? he once wrote. Speaking to a Quaker gathering in 1938, he said, "With admiration and respect I have seen, in the course of many years, how successfully and selflessly the Society of Friends has worked in the entire world to lessen human suffering and to make the teachings of Christ apply to real life. Everyone who is concerned about a better lot and a more dignified stature for humanity owes deep gratitude to the Society of Friends. This Society is an admirable testimony against the assertion that every organization by its very nature kills the spirit which has called it into life.?In 1949 the Australian pathologist Alton R. Chapple, who was a Quaker, wrote to Einstein, in the then-current climate of concern regarding the perils of the atomic age, for "a few words of leadership and hope". Einstein responded, stressing the necessity for moral courage by the individual. He said that power is often in the hands of power-loving persons who know very little restrictions when it comes to the realization of their ambitious goals; and answering negatively the question whether self-restraint on what ?productive thinkers and explorers? research might not prevent further development of means of mass destruction. He gave three main reasons: 1) The already existing means of destruction are effective enough to bring about total destruction; 2) People really devoted to the progress of knowledge concerning the physical world like Faraday or Rutherford have never worked for practical goals, let alone military goals. And nobody could know in advance what kind of application might be developed on the basis of their discoveries; and 3) People of technical skill are so numerous and so dependent economically that they cannot be expected to refuse employment offered them by the state or private industry, even if they were able to clearly recognize that their work will lead to disaster on a world-wide scale. He concluded that hope can only be based on the intellectual and moral independence of a sufficient number of people, since ?honesty and courage of the individual to stand up for his convictions on every occasion is the only essential thing?.Chapple wrote Einstein again in 1954, about the Quakers, and a perceived contradiction that Chapple discerned in the 1949 letter, thinking that Einstein stated that he does not expect people to refuse to work in research that generates knowledge for the means of mass destruction. Einstein responded to Chapple, giving a virtual primer on his world view and opinions on how a religion and religious individuals could live a moral life and contribute something valuable to society and the cause of peace. This he felt the Quakers did.Typed letter signed, on his blind-embossed letterhead, Princeton, February 23, 1954, to Alton Chapple in Australia, illuminating Einstein?s judgment and standards of conduct. ?Thank you for your letter of February 16th. I consider the Society of Friends the religious community which has the highest moral standards. As far as I know they have never made evil compromises and are always guided by their conscience. In international life, especially, their influence seems to me to be very beneficial and effective.?There seems to me to be no contradiction in my remarks in my former letter to you. The rules applying to a moral elite can not be expected to be followed by the rank and file.??So here Einstein praises those religions with ?the highest moral standards? He especially lays out the need for them, and for individuals, to avoid ?evil? compromises, and to always be guided by conscience. If an individual does these things, or a dedicated group like the Quakers, they will gain influence that is both beneficial and effective. Einstein d.