THE author of this work has made up his mind in advance that the question of relativity is a philosophical problem. It is therefore necessary for him to dismiss contemptuously all the history of the ...

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THERE is no need to begin this notice of Lord Haldane's book with a general reference to its scope and purpose. It is well known that, though the book deals with many problems of science, it is not ...