Einstein's Theories and the Inferences to be Drawn from Them. Einstein's theories, supported as they are by very convincing experiments, will probably profoundly influence philosophic and perhaps religious thought, but they can hardly be said to be of immediate consequence to the man in the street. As I have said elsewhere, Einstein's theories are not going to add one bushel of wheat to war-torn and devastated Europe, but in their conception of a cosmos decidedly at variance with anything yet conceived by any school of philosophy, they will attract the universal attention of thinking men in all countries. The scientist is immediately struck by the way Einstein has utilized the various achievements in physics and mathematics to build up a co-ordinated system showing connecting links where heretofore none were perceived. The philosopher is equally fascinated with a theory, which, in detail extremely complex, shows a singular beauty of unity in design when viewed as a whole. The revolutionary ideas propounded regarding time and space, the brilliant way in which the most universal property of matter, gravitation, is for the first time linked up with other properties of matter, and, above all, the experimental confirmation of several of his more startling predictions--always the finest test of scientific merit--stamps Einstein as one of those super-men who from time to time are sent to us to give us a peep into the beyond. Some Facts about Einstein Himself. Albert Einstein was born in Germany some 45 years ago. At first he was engaged at the Patent Bureau in Berne, and later became professor at the Zürich Polytechnic. After a short stay at Prague University he accepted one of those tempting "Akademiker" professorships at the university of Berlin--professorships which insure a comfortable income to the recipient of one of them, little university work beyond, perhaps, one lecture a week, and splendid facilities for research. A similar inducement enticed the chemical philosopher, Van 't Hoff, to leave his Amsterdam, and the Swedes came perilously near losing their most illustrious scientist, Arrhenius. Einstein published his first paper on relativity in 1905, when not more than 30 years old. Of this paper Planck, the Nobel Laureate in physics this year, has offered this opinion: "It surpasses in boldness everything previously suggested in speculative natural philosophy and even in the philosophical theories of knowledge. The revolution introduced into the physical conceptions of the world is only to be compared in extent and depth with that brought about by the introduction of the Copernican system of the universe." Einstein published a full exposition of the relativity theory in 1916.