Excerpt from Optical Geometry of Motion: A New View, of the Theory of Relativity
In placing before his readers the following brief outline of a point of view, the writer is well aware that it is far from complete in many respects. He however believes that, in the first presentment of a theory, there are considerable advantages in stating explicitly only its principal features.
To cover up a general standpoint under a mass of detail is to run the risk of obscuring it altogether. There is always the danger that the reader may "not be able to see the wood for the trees" - a danger which is becoming very real in much modern mathematics.
The substance of the following essay was originally intended by the writer to form a chapter of a book of semi-philosophical character upon which he is engaged.
In view, however, of the amount of attention which the subject of Relativity is at present attracting, it seemed to him that this portion might prove of sufficient interest to warrant its separate publication.
From the standpoint of the pure mathematician Geometry is a branch of formal logic but there are more aspects of things than one, and the geometrician has but to look at the name of his science to be reminded that it had its origin in a definite physical problem.
That problem in an extended form still retains its interest.
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