PROFESSOR EINSTEIN AND RELIGION.
Professor Albert Einstein has cabled an avowal of his religious faith in response to a question from a New York Rabbi anxious to defend Einstein against the recent attack on him by Cardinal O'Connell. The Cardinal, addressing members of 'the New England province of Catholic Clubs of America at Boston, denounced the theory of relativity as " befogged speculation, producing universal doubt about God and His creation." Professor Einstein, the Cardinal
added, was simply " cloaking the ghastly apparition of atheism:"-- -Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, of the Institutional Synagogue, New York,-feeling that the matter could not be left there, cabled Professor Einstein, ," Do you believe in
God ? " By radiogram came the reply in German : " believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings." Rabbi Gold- stein holds that this acceptance of Spinoza's " the God-intoxi- cated man " is the very reverse of atheism and that Einstein would bring to mankind a scientific formula for monotheism
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