“Einstein says that space and time, when you work that out, turn out to be nothing more than relations established between the mind and the things that it observes, and the relations vary according as the observant mind is still or moving. If I look out of the window and continue to observe, I see the sun moving across the heavens, and apparently going round the earth; and that is what people believed to happen f< thousands of years. We know now that the earth goes round the sun. and that it was only the relativity of our position that made us fancy we were at rest and that the sun had a circular motion round us. This conventional views brings about relativity. Now reflect on the truth that applies to a great many other things besides the motion of the sun. It applies to our ideas on the great subjects of God, freedom, and immortality. If the point of view that I have been putting is
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 70, 15 December 1928, Page 23
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