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Reigate, tn., Surrey, England. The church
is in part Norman, and in a vault lie the re-
mains of Charles, Lord Howard of Effingham,
of Armada fame; p. 30,830.

Reign of Terror. See France; Danton;
Robespierre.

Reimarus, Hermann Samuel (1694-
1768), German naturalist, philologist, and
philosopher. His most famous work was
Wolfenbiltteler Fragmcnte eines Unbekannten.

Reindeer (Rangijcr tarandus), a deer of
northern habitat, distinguished conspicuously
by the fact that antlers are present in both
sexes. The antlers are placed unusually far
back on the head, and are very long. In gen-
eral build the animal is somewhat heavy and
clumsy, the limbs being short, and the feet
broad and spreading, enabling the animal to
travel well in marshy places or soft snow. At
the present time the reindeer is confined to
the northern parts of both hemispheres. Do-
mesticated reindeer are found in parts of
Norway, in Lapland, and in Siberia.

Reindeer Moss, finely branched, grayish
lichen, which covers large areas in N. Eu-
rope and America. It constitutes the principal
food of the Reindeer.

Reinhardt, Max (1873-1943), stage di-
rector, actor and producer, was bom in
Austria. He is chiefly noted outside of Eu-
rope for his spectacular and lavish produc-
tions which include such tremendous success-
es as The Miracle, first produced in 1911; A
Midsummer Night's Dream, produced in
large scale outdoor settings since 1933, and
staged for the motion pictures by Mr. Rein-
hardt in 1934; and The Eternal Road (1937).

Reinhart, Charles Stanley (1844-96),
American painter. Some of his paintings are
Coast of Normandy (1882), Washed Ashore
(1887), and Rising Tide (1888).

Reisner, George Andrew (r867-i942),
archaeologist. He is professor of Egyptology
at Harvard, and curator of the Egyptian De-
partment of Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
He has been director of several Egyptian ex-
peditions. Important discoveries during ex-
cavations Ģin his charge include, the Pyramids
of 68 sovereigns of Ethiopia; the Pyramids of
5 kings of Egypt; the tomb of the mother of
Cheops.

Rejane, Gabrielle Reju (1857-1920),
French actress. She soon became ifamous, and
her creations were Ma Camarade (1882),
Clara Soldi; Gcrmimc Lacerteux, Marpuise,
Madame Sans Glne (1893), and Les Pas
serelles,

Relapsing Fever, or Famine Fever, a

disease common in Ireland during the famine
period. The disease is an acute infectious
fever, chiefly distinguished by the micro-or-
ganism which accompanies it in the blood and
by its tendency to run for six days, remit for
about the same number, and then to return
for about the same number of days, perhaps
two or three times, but each time with a
tendency to a slighter relapse. Fatal cases are
not common.

Relations. A general term including all
kindred of a person. In law, this term with-
out qualification generally refers to such kin-
dred as would take under the statutes of dis-
tribution.

Relativity. See Einstein Theory.
Relativity of Knowledge, in the false
and sceptical meaning of the phrase, suggests
that human knowledge, because it is in one or
other of various ways 'relative/ is necessarily
vitiated and devoid of ultimate truth. The
relativity of knowledge, in the better sense of
the phrase, denotes simply the fact that all
knowledge is interconnected, or that all ob-
jects of knowledge belong to a single coherent
world of reality, so that no one object can be
really known except through its relations to
other objects. Relativity, in this sense, is not
a defect of knowledge, but the very char-
acteristic which makes it possible at all. For
it is precisely because the objects of know-
ledge are mutually involved that knowledge
can advance, and by its continual self-correc-
tion progress to a more and more adequate
apprehension of the reality.

Relator. A person who institutes an in-
formation in the nature of quo warranto, or
other proceeding, wholly or partly for the
benefit of the public.

Release. The surrendering or abandoning
of a legal claim or interest in property, or
discharge of legal liability by the person in
whose favor it exists. In some states a verbal
release is sufficient, but generally it should be
in writing.

Relics, the remains of saintly persons held
in veneration and used as means of obtaining
benefits.

Religion, a general term which has come
into customary use since the i6th century.
Two things are chiefly required for a satis-
factory definition: on the one hand, a state-
ment which will differentiate religion from
the allied forms of human thought, such as
art or morality; on the other, a statement
which is wide enough to include all the forms
which religion has taken, both in the form of
subjective emotion and in the form of bis-