IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE MOST BENEFICIENT, THE MOST MERCIFUL PRESENTATIONON ALBERT EINSTEIN’S THE WORLD AS I SEE IT by IFTIKHAR AHMAD Lecturer Department of English

INTRODUCTION Albert Einstein ( ) is regarded as the greatest mathematical physicist and one of the greatest scientists of all time. Born in Germany of Jewish parents. Spent his early youth in Switzerland, taught mathematical physics at Zurich. Acquired Swiss citizenship but became an American citizen having settled in the United States in 1941.

POLITICAL IDEAL Democracy is his political ideal. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. Described a chaotic capitalist society, a source of evil to be overcome, as the “ predatory phase of human development”. Passionately opposed to the political systems in contemporary Italy and Russia. Italy had fascism under Mussolini and in Russia, Stalin had his authoritative version of communism.

VIEWS ABOUT WAR War is a mean and contemptible thing and believes that this evil would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

BIDDING FAREWELL TO LIFE Einstein died on 18 April 1955 in Princeton, USA. Refused surgery saying: “I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly”.

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