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...Your cover story about Dr. Albert Schweitzer [TIME, July 11] seems to me a new high...
...Although Schweitzer can certainly be considered a man of character ... his "rev-erence-for-life" theme is decidedly and unfortunately neurotic . . . The tearing of leaves from a tree, the shattering of ice crystals and the cutting of flowers . . . the avoidance of unwittingly damaging weeds at a roadside -all of these are most neurotic . . . The fact that men like Schweitzer and Gandhi have been lauded and idealized for their "ethics" in such matters is a striking indication of what part neurotic trends can play in religion and ethics in our still quite primitive civilization...
...highest praise I can give this article is that I think it is entirely worthy of its subject. Schweitzer's life is a knockdown argument for Christian missions...
After reading the interesting account of the work of Albert Schweitzer, my wife and I felt that we should like to send his hospital at Lambarene a small contribution...
...Shetzleys' contribution has been forwarded to The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, c/o Dr. Emory Ross, treasurer, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City...