Record of a Friendship

isn't bad, but when the editor tells a homosexual to cure himself by

will power, I have my doubts. And the gaudy cover makes it look cheap

and vulgar.

To return to Einstein ... I feel it would be ,an error to make anything

public at all. You don't want to compel people to take sides. Einstein

versus Reich. But you must face the fact that E. doesn't believe in you

or your work. I can think of no other explanation of his attitude. I say,

. What the hell! Don't forget that a great physicist can have complexes
that may blind him to any science that touches emotion. That of course
is the greatest drawback in having your discoveries recognised.

Orgonon

Rangeley , Maine

My dear Neill:

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May 2, 1944

I received your letter of March 28th. I agree with you in

regard to Einstein. I firmly believe that you overestimate his influence.

I have sent out and distributed several documents which secure my '

priority in the discovery of the cosmic energy. I wonder whether you

received th e one I sent you. Please keep it simply among your docu­

ments.

As to your question of fasting to clear all organs for the elimination

of the cancerous material, I don't have any �pinion, but it is possible

that it could help. On the other hand, to m�ke a cancer patient fa�t,

who is so much inclined to lose body substances, seems "rather danger­

ous to me.

I do not believe that what. you wrote six months ago is out of date

today. You may say it is not timely, but it won't be out of date for

decades to come. Your writings will live as Pestalozzi's* writings are

alive., But our species, homo sapiens, is a funny creature. He admires

most what he understands least, because he despises himself. And if

'he has the choice between a good library and a baseball game he will

surely choose the baseball game because it does not require as much

of him as the library. And he loves most what gives him the least re-

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* Johan� Heinrich Pestalozzi (1^74 6-1827), Swiss educational reformer� whose

theories laid the foundation of modern elementary education.