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Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as we have succeeded in unravelling fully the natural laws which govern reality, we find them to be expressible by mathematical relations of surpassing simplicity and architectonic perfection.

Einstein's Theory of Relativity has advanced our ideas of the structure of the cosmos a step further. It is as if a wall which separates us from Truth has collapsed. Wider expanses and greater depths are now exposed to the searching eye of knowledge, regions of which we had not even a presentiment. It has brought us much nearer to grasping the plan that underlies all physical happening.

Written in April, 1918.