New Britain herald., 1930-06-25

general philosophical problems.
 Two points especially come to the front whenever EinsteIn's theories are contemplated or discussed: rela- tlvlty and unity Of matter,
 The first axiom states: Nothing is absolute in the material world and. everything IS relative to something else.
 The second of ElnsteIns basic postulates IS as follows the whole material world, ln all its manifold appearances can be reduced to hom- ogenous elements Of which, in the last analysis. the whole material world IS composed Elnsteln freely admits that our laboratories didn't vet reach such perfection as to be able to segregate those ultimate par tlcles nor 10 penetrate thelr chemical and physical qualities. Nevertheless they do exist no matter how the sci encs would call them atoms. Ions, electrons a s. O.
 4 combination Of these two fun damental principles leads Elnstein 10 his belief that there IS practically no objective difference between mat ter and force and, consequently, be- tween space and time, so that force, energy and movement are unthlnk- able without matter and. in conse- quence, space without time.
 Having briefly stated the princi- pies Of Einsteln's theory we natur- ally must ask ourselves two ques- tons. first. are those two basic statements IT Elnstein's philosophy true7 and secondly, f so, are they nev2
 Without hesitation we can answer the first question aft!rnatvely and the second negatively
 Both statements regarding the relat,yirv ot the mater and force and regarding the unity Of material world lH the last aralys.s are abso- lurelv true and are only logical con- sequences O. method,cal study Of philosophy out from the most fun danlenraI posculate Of evidence ln our daily life, Of experience which IS the only possible and thInka bIe starting point for our philosophical and purely intellectual Investga- tons
 As 70 the second question. vheth- CT or not thls theory IS something new We must state that r is not SO Both those prlcIpIes have been known. q least lrtu!tlvely. ln the Greclaa philosophy and have been clearly and methodlcally proclaim ed by the Scholastic Philosophy Of the XIII century especially by Thomas Aquinas in his Sumna con- ira Genules
 Regarding the relatvlty Of things material, the great thinkers Of scholasuclsm most emphatlcally taught the lnter-relat.vltv of things and, consequently. ot their depend erce from an ems absoIutun, per SC necessarlurl. as opposed to the ma terlaI manifestations which are and must be IT the nature Of ems relatl- H-lnl contlngens.
 We see, therefore, that the scho- lasrlcs went one step farther than Elnstein, but 3 step dictated by ln- rellect. !t, as T. is true, al! things material are relative and lnterde- pendent and yer they exist, then they mus T their complex be dependent rom an Absolute Being Y IS on!y ? different expression or the sane basic concept Of Aristotle probably he greatest philosophical genius that e-er existed to which he arrlv- ed by pure intellectual speculation by log!cal and lrrefutahle conse- 1uence To Proton Klnoun Ak,ne- ion. the first being moving and caused but unmoved and without cause
 And again. Elrsteln's statement o' homogeneous unity Of the naterla world IT the final anaIysls IS aa ex' act repluon Of the scholastic theorZ Of "materla prima 90 the first matte, which underlles all things naterla but never appears in nature Tn Il! pure state.
 So much regarding Einstein's s IT os popular axlonls.
 One reflection more. How does l come ve may ask ourselves. rha
 Elnste.a has won SO rapidly sue! an unparalleled popularity tha
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 produce anything ne7'n The answe
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 psychology ot our mlrds. We seldon
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 us. We are prejudlced and too otte
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 axlon for rhls only reason becaus r. comes from an unpopular source know from experience of yer
 many cases that educated men (
 science were astonlshed when proved 10 them the truth state ) above that the Scholastic Phllosoph . said those things seven hundre
 years ago and that those truths rer
 and remained the basic and funda
 mental postulates Of the Cathol
 philosophy
 Another psychological moment
 explaining this strange phenomena s is the fact that We do not appreclat
 even dlstrus- [ truth if 1t be pr' !, sented 10 Us n simple form 1ltr ' out enIgmatical additions. This my s terious atmosphete around the sir 2 pie truths seems to be now an 1T 0 dispensabl condition for popularl' }. and for appreciation. We do n q want to think and to understand; V y want to be rnistified and to gues O But. after all, such 2 method vi z never bring us to true and seCu, g results in the way of tntellectu
 progress
 = Stanislaus DeM3ria Torosle~lc