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EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). Autograph letter signed ('Papa') to his younger son, Eduard, Scharbeuz-bei-Lübeck, 10 August n.y., one page, 4to.
A BLAST AGAINST THE 'UNREASON' OF DOCTORS. Eduard has just cancelled a shared holiday with his father at the last minute on medical advice, and Einstein is furious: 'Take the fate of this holiday as a warning and -- stop following the doctors. For no reason they have snatched away our summer period together, to no purpose, no purpose at all! And here it is so wonderful that in spite of illness I am delighted with it -- I too came here against the wishes of the doctors'; they are reading Schopenhauer and Plato and enjoying the coastal scenery, and if Eduard still has time, he should come, but 'Don't ask the doctors! They are the successors of the priests, who rule over us in the name of our corpses'; it was absurd to have stuck Eduard in a sanitorium and encouraged his 'hypochondria'.
A BLAST AGAINST THE 'UNREASON' OF DOCTORS. Eduard has just cancelled a shared holiday with his father at the last minute on medical advice, and Einstein is furious: 'Take the fate of this holiday as a warning and -- stop following the doctors. For no reason they have snatched away our summer period together, to no purpose, no purpose at all! And here it is so wonderful that in spite of illness I am delighted with it -- I too came here against the wishes of the doctors'; they are reading Schopenhauer and Plato and enjoying the coastal scenery, and if Eduard still has time, he should come, but 'Don't ask the doctors! They are the successors of the priests, who rule over us in the name of our corpses'; it was absurd to have stuck Eduard in a sanitorium and encouraged his 'hypochondria'.
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