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{{quote|[[Richard Dawkins]] has referred to his beliefs, which certainly include the four points above, as ''Einsteinian religion''. Dawkins’ description of this creed is poetic and extremely reminiscent of [[Ralph Waldo Emerson|Emerson]]’s Divinity School Address. Has he never heard of Transcendentalism? Is he unaware that Emerson was a Unitarian minister?

[[Albert Einstein|Einstein]] certainly believed in the four points as well. Did he invent them during his ''annus mirabilis''? Did they arrive in a stroke of light along with Brownian motion, special relativity and the photoelectric effect? Probably not, because the four points also feature very prominently in a little book called ''Looking Backward'', which appeared in 1888 and sold about a bazillion copies.