Download or read book The Reign of Relativity (Classic Reprint) written by Viscount Haldane and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-24 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Reign of Relativity The topics of this book are Knowledge itself and the relativity of reality to the character of Knowledge. Some Of the questions considered in the book are more than two thousand years old. That fact need not disturb us. For there appears to have been steady progress in the forms of the answers which have gradually been evolved. If the substance of these turns out to be more akin to doctrines originally produced by the Greeks than we had expected to find, that again need not disturb us. It would not trouble us in the case of literature or art, and we have to learn to study philosophy, and even to a considerable extent science, as we study these, with the circumstances and language of the particular period steadily kept in our view. To say this does not mean that we are to treat lightly either truth itself or the im perative necessity for exactness in its statement. But it does mean that we must have in mind that truth in its full significance imports quality as much as it imports quantity, and therefore variety in standard. We have read the history of human endeavour in its many aspects to little purpose if we have not learned this. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.