Chapter VI

. would be adequately done by the essayists themselves. His reading of the essays, however, convinced him that it had not so been done--that with the possible exception of Mr. Francis, the essayists did not make either a serious or a successful effort to show the organic connection between the Special Theory of Relativity and the Minkowski space-time structure, or the utter futility of trying to reconcile ourselves to the results of the former without employing the ideas of the latter. So