Here is the most definitive collec-

tion of Albert Einstein's popular writings, gathered under the super-vision of Professor Einstein, him-self. It ranges from earliest days to the moment of this book; from such subjects as relativity, atomic war or peace, religion and science,to human rights, economics and government.

  The sources for this collection are previously published books, ar-ticles, speeches, letters and state-ments made here and abroad, and pieces never before published.

Publisher's Note

PART I: IDEAS AND OPINIONS

Paradise Lost

My First Impressions of the

  U.S.A.

Reply to the Women of America

The World as I See It

The Meaning of Life

The True Value of a Human

 Being

Good and Evil

On Wealth

Society and Personality

Interviewers

Congratulations to a Critic

To the Schoolchildren of Japan

Message in the Time-Capsule

Remarks on Bertrand Russell's

 Theory of Knowledge

A Mathematician's Mind

The State and the Individual

 Conscience

Aphorisms for Leo Baeck

    About Freedom

On Academic Freedom

Fascism and Science

On Freedom

Address on Receiving Lord &c

 Taylor Award

Modern Inquisitional Methods

Human Rights

    About Religion

Religion and Science

The Religious Spirit of Science

Science and Religion

Religion and Science: Irrecon-

 cilable?

The Need for Ethical Culture

    About Education

The University Courses at Davos

Teachers and Pupils

Education and Educators

Education and World Peace

On Education

On Classic Literature

Ensuring the Future of Mankind

Education for Independent

 Thought

     About Friends

Joseph Popper-Lynkaeus

Greeting to George Bernard Shaw

In Honor of Arnold Berliner's

 Seventieth Birthday

H. A. Lorentz's Work in the Cause

 of International Cooperation

Address at the Grave of H. A.

 Lorentz

H. A. Lorentz, Creator and

 Personality

Marie Curie in Memoriam

Mahatma Gandhi

Max Planck in Memoriam

Messege in Honor of Morris

 Raphael Cohen

PART II: ON POLITICS, GOVERNMENT, AND PACIFISM

The International of Science

A Farewell

The Institute of Intellectual

 Cooperation

Thoughts on the World Economic

  Crisis

Production and Purchasing Power

Production and Work

Address to the Students' Dis-

  armament Meeting

The Disarmament Conference of

  1032

America and the Disarmament

 Conference of 1932

The Question of Disarmament

Arbitration

To Sigmund Freud

Peace

The Pacifist Problem

Compulsory Service

Women and War

Three Letters to Friends of Peace

Active Pacifism

Observations on the Present

 Situation in Europe

Germany and France

Culture and Prosperity

Minorities

The Heirs of the Ages

The War Is Won, but the Peace

 Is Not

Atomic War or Peace

The Military Mentality

Exchange of Letters with Mem-

 bers of the Russian Academy

On Receiving the One World

 Award

A Message to Intellectuals

Why Socialism?

National Security

The Pursuit of Peace

"Culture Must Be One of the

 Foundations for World Un-

 derstanding"

On the Abolition of the Threat

 of War

Symptoms of Cultural Decay

PART III: ON THE JEWISH PEOPLE

A Letter to Professor Dr. Hell-

 pach, Minister of State

Letter to an Arab

The Jewish Community

Addresses on Reconstruction in

  Palestine

Working Palestine

Jewish Recovery

Christianity and Judaism

Jewish Ideals

Is There a Jewish Point of View?

Anti-Semitism and Academic

 You th

Our Debt to Zionism

Why Do They Hate the Jews?

The Dispersal of European Jewry

The Jews of Israel

PART IV: ON GERMANY

Manifesto--March, 1933

Correspondence with the Prussian

 Academy of Sciences

Correspondence with the Bavarian

 Academy of Sciences

A Reply to the Invitation to

 Participate in a Meeting

 Against Anti-Semitism

To the Heroes of the Battle of

 the Warsaw Ghetto

PART V: CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCIENCE

Introduction, by Valentine

 Bargmann

Principles of Theoretical Physics

Principles of Research

What Is the Theory of Rela-

 tivity?

Geometry and Experience

On the Theory of Relativity

The Cause of the Formation of

 Meanders in the Courses of

 Rivers and of the So-called

 Baer's Law

The Mechanics of Newton and

 Their Influence on the Devel-

 opment of Theoretical Physics

On Scientific Truth

Johannes Kepler

Maxwell's Influence on the Evo-

  lution of the Idea of Physical

  Reality

On the Method of Theoretical

 Physics

The Problem of Space, Ether,

 and the Field in Physics

Notes on the Origin of the Gen-

 eral Theory of Relativity

Physics and Reality

The Fundaments of Theoretical

 Physics

The Common Language of

 Science

E=MCs

On the Generalized Theory of

 Gravitation

Message to the Italian Society for

  the Advancement of Science

Message on the 410th Anniver-

 sary of the Death of Coperni-

 cus

Relativity and the Problem of

 Space