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On the other hand, reminiscence is an act of bringing to mind elements of consciousness that, as already-lived [gelebte], have disappeared; here already are constituted objective structures whose sensual content is held as identical, independently of the to-be-lived. Time is thereby ordered, through the connection of earlier and later, into a one-dimensional continuum of time points to which the lived contents are bound. Consciousness glides along this time line and awakens to life one point after another to the life of the Now, the immediate present.

I really cannot say more than this truism. A. Einstein Zurich, July 27, 1922 Dear Sir, Mr. Bovet’s question, to which you invited me to reply, surprised me in two ways. First, that even today, after Western intellectual life has striven for one hundred fifty years to overcome the primitive position of the Enlightenment, that the strict lawfulness of the world of appearances can seem oppressive to the evaluating, willing, and active ego. And second, that Einsteinian dynamics, which only allows the energy and momentum of a body to depend on its velocity a little differently than Newtonian mechanics, is associated with the expectation of an easing of this pressure.

Newton himself was able to pass from uniform translation to rest only by a strange scholastic trick which shows up most peculiarly in the disposition of the Principia which is otherwise so rigorous. Finally, in the fourth place, the general theory of relativity permits this world structure in its inertial as well as its causal aspect again to become a physical entity which yields to the forces of matter; thus in a certain sense the circle closes, even though the quantities of condition characterizing the state of the ether have now become entirely different from those in the beginning of the development, when it appeared on the scene as a substantial medium.

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