TIME AND MOTION 85 



temerity to present the first paper on the prin- 

 ciple of relativity before the American Physical 

 Society it was with a sense of exaltation like 

 that which one experiences on hearing for the 

 first time a great symphony or a great poem. 



Then felt I like some watcher of the skies 

 When a new planet swims into his ken; 

 Or like stout Cortez — when with eagle eyes 

 He stared at the Pacific, and all his men 

 Looked at each other with a wild surmise — 

 SQent, upon a peak in Darien. 



