16 August 1917. Albert Einstein

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Project 1917 is a series of events that took place a hundred years ago as described by those involved. It is composed only of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers and other documents

Albert Einstein

Lucerne, Switzerland

The theory of relativity is being warmly received within the professionacommunity. How is it possible that our civilized age is at the same time so evil? I am becoming more and more convinced that everything counts for very little, apart from the love of one’s neighbour and friendship between people.

Wouldn’t it be better for the whole world if degenerate Europe were to burn itself out completely? All our much-lauded technical progress, the whole of our civilization, is no better than an axe in the hands of a hardened criminal. I believe quite sincerely that the Chinese have advanced further than us and are superior to us in their development, and that their gradual expansion will continue after our “sanitized” comrades have died out.

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