Of course, the detailed deductions are important, because unless our colleagues the astronomers and the physicists find these predictions to be verified we can neglect the theory altogether.

But we may now take it as granted that in many striking particulars these deductions have been found to be in agreement with observation.

Accordingly the theory has to be taken seriously and we are anxious to know what will be the consequences of its final acceptance.

Furthermore during the last few weeks the scientific journals and the lay press have been filled with articles as to the nature of the crucial experiments which have been made and as to some of the more striking expressions of the outcome of the new theory.
'Space caught bending' appeared on the news-sheet of a well-known evening paper.

This rendering is a terse but not inapt translation of Einstein's own way of interpreting his results.