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Tailored for Primitives. Despite such squalor, Schweitzer's institution has a good medical record, and the city's Europeans generally choose it over the new government hospital. Few hospitals anywhere can offer such a dedicated staff, or one that lives as austerely. Each of the doctors and nurses occupies a single room equipped with iron bed, enamel wash basin and kerosene lamp; meals usually consist of fried bananas and other fruit. The old man stubbornly refuses to go modern. Says he: "Circumstances command that the hospital be primitive in keeping with the primitive state of the people...
...African critics take Schweitzer's insistence on primitiveness as an insult, or a needless prolongation of "the white man's burden." Symbolically, they point out, he and his staff still wear pith helmets. The concept that the Dark Continent can make more progress through independence is, to Schweitzer, folly. Told that the Peace Corps is building primary schools all over Gabon, and that the little country has 14 medical students training in France, Dr. Schweitzer merely chuckles and says of the blacks: "You cannot change their mentality." Among his six doctors and 17 nurses, there...
...little deaf but alert as a lion. He is still planning additions to the hospital and is working on Volume III of The Philosophy of Civilization. A few weeks ago, he announced that he would make no more rest visits to Europe, which his disciples take to mean that Schweitzer wants to die at Lambaréné, where his wife was buried six years...
...back as World War I, Schweitzer expressed his dislike for the modern world outside: "In a thousand different ways mankind has been persuaded to give up its natural relations with reality and to seek its welfare in the magic formulas of some kind of economic and social witchcraft." Schweitzer has made his own reality; he lives in the Africa of 1913, hardly knowing or caring that a continent and a century have passed...
These efforts to write miracle-free biographies of Jesus-summed up in 1906 by Albert Schweitzer in his classic The Quest of the Historical Jesus-ended in failure. For one thing, explains Bultmann Disciple Günther Bornkamm, "it became alarmingly and terrifyingly evident how inevitably each author brought the spirit of his own age into his presentation of the figure of Jesus." For another, such turn-of-the-century theologians as Johannes Weiss and Wilhelm Wrede proved conclusively that the Gospels were not simple historical accounts but highly sophisticated theological works in which the oral tradition preserved by Christ...