Note Note 28 — § 5 EINSTEIN'S THEORY OF GRAVITATION
Henry L. (Henry Leopold) Brose translation
(p. 61). One must avoid being deceived into the belief that Newton's fundamental law is in any way to be regarded as an explanation of gravitation. The conception of attractive force is borrowed from our muscular sensations, and has therefore no meaning when applied to dead matter. C. Neumann, who took great pains to place Newton's mechanics on a solid basis, glosses upon this point himself in a drastic fashion, in the following narrative, which shows up the weaknesses of the former view: