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maticians and physicists in sheer desperation were forced either to 

 accept it, or to construct a new theory which shunned its objectionable 

 features. Whether the relativity theory then is to serve as a pattern for 

 the ultimate hypothesis of the universe or whether its end is to illus- 

 trate what is to be avoided in the construction of such a hypothesis, is 

 perhaps after all not the important question. 



