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instein, the Religionist rabbi JULIUS s. FISHER Beaufort, S. C. ere is a legend about Jacob d. According to it when Ja- ied the kings of the neighbor- countries hastened to his fu- ! and, as a sign of their hom- they laid their crowns upon coffin, so that Jacob’s bier was rounded with crowns, even as id is surrounded with a fence, recalled this legend when I l read of the passing of the eatest scientist of our age, Al- . crt Einstein. booking back at his life, one moot but say that his was a hap- v lot as scientists go. Many a •ientist remained unacknowledg ed during his lifetime, many of them were persecuted, some of them had to die for their convic tions. Keppler was hounded from country to country.; Galilei was humiliated to the dust and com pelled to revoke his teachings. Ty cho de Brahe, the great Dutch as tronomer, was dismissed from his position of royal astronomer be cause his work was considered to u superfluous, Baruch Spinoza was excommunicated and lived an outcast, Giordano Bruno was burn ed at the stake. How different was Einstein’s life. At the age of 26, an unknown clerk at the Swiss patent office, he -ubmitted four essays to the fore- n st scientific monthly of Europe, the Annalen der Physik in Berlin. Aiter their publication, each of the essays created sensation in its respective field. This happened in 1905. fifty years ago. Soon his name became known and admired throughout the sci entific world. Universities vied in offering him chairs. In 1921 he received the Nobel prize. All the universities of Europe and An i ica, dozens of them, bestowed honorary degrees on him. Hr rose from success to success. U a wizard, like a scientific pro- he predicted future develop- They all came true. He predicted certain astronomic phe nomena and a body of British sci entists verified them. He predicted the transformation of matter into energy and set up the now historical equation of E equals mc(2) indicating that vast amounts of energy will be released through this process and lived to see the demonstration of the cor rectness of his formula. In 1939 in his letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt he predicted the dis covery of the atomic bomb and six years after the first atomic bomb was exploded. Thus, as the years rolled by. his authority and fame grew and grew. And when he died the an cient legend became true. The kings of all countries hastened to his funeral. What kings? Not kings of flesh and blood who sit on their tottering thrones, but the kings in the luminous realm of science and thought. A galaxy of scientists lamented his departure and laid their crowns, as it were, on his bier by acknowledging that he, Einstein, was the Master and they the pupils, that he, Einstein, was the greatest among the great. It is hard to reflect briefly on Einstein. His life was so rich, his activities so manifold, his person ality so colorful that one is em barrassed by the vastness of the subject. The most amazing feature of his character was, in my opinion, that he possessed all the qualities of a genius without any of its short comings or weaknesses. Think of Rousseau, who threw away his children, five cf them, one after the other, of Voltaire, who was money-mad, of Nietsche who was half insane until his mind became entirely deranged, of Bernard Shaw, how asocial and preposter ously vainglorious he was. Con trast Einstein with them and you will see an entirely harmoniously tuned personality. He was not Talbert Pontiac -Cadillac Co. Beaufort, S. C. Sck ein A '-department dtore “Shopping Center of Beaufort Since 1898" Fordham Supply Company, Inc. 822-834 Bay St. Box 545 Phone 366 Franchised Dealer RCA PRODUCTS - HOTPOINT APPLANCES EASY WASHERS & DRYERS - NEW HOME SEWING MACHINES - HOME FURNISHINGS BEAUFORT, S. C. Von Harten Bros., Inc. Telephone 158 Your Chrysler-Plymouth Dealer BEAUFORT, S. C. Fordham Hardware Company Appliances — Paints — Farm Supplies — Sporting Goods TELEPHONE 55 BEAUFORT, S. C. Western Auto Associate Store P. O. Box 438 Telephone 176 JAMES H. DEER, Owner SCOTT & PORT REPUBLIC STS. BEAUFORT, SOUTH CAROLINA YOUNG LUMBER CO. Building Supplies — Kohler Plumbing Fixtures Lumber — Millwork — Brick — Paint Builders Hardware BEAUFORT, S. C. uthem Israelite 71