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Marcel Dupré, 62, is one of the few men who has ever claimed to know all of the fat and formidable organ literature of Bach by heart. As a performer of Bach and other early masters, he has his rivals: in famed Bach Scholar Albert Schweitzer and Princeton's Carl Weinrich. But Dupré is also a master of the moderns...
...Schweitzer lives his ethic of Reverence for Life with a Franciscan absolutism. Rather than cut down trees that must be removed, he has often gone to considerable pains to get them transplanted...
...Schweitzer recognizes another Jesus who transcends time altogether: ". . . The truth is, it is not Jesus as historically known, but Jesus as spiritually arisen within men, who is significant for our time and can help it. Not the historical Jesus, but the spirit which goes forth from Him and in the spirits of men strives for new influence and rule, is that which overcomes the world...
...Rationalist Schweitzer the phrase "Reverence for Life" seems "the ethic of Jesus brought to philosophical expression, extended into cosmical form, and conceived of as intellectually necessary...
...Albert Schweitzer, the young man who surrendered his great possessions, began a new life with an act of negation. From that time on, he could be wholly positive toward the world around him-whether he called it Reverence for Life or the knowledge and love of God in his fellow creatures. With these words he concludes one of his books...