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...Albert Schweitzer runs his hospital. The sanitary arrangements were "picturesque," but the picture Gunther leaves of the grand old doctor seizing a spade to encourage his leper workmen ("Allez-vous OPP, allez-vous OPP-upp-OPP . . .") stands out like a flame in the forest...
Three types of altruists have been distinguished by the Center's research. Fortunate Altruists, like Albert Schweitzer and Benjamin Franklin, grow into altruistic creativity peacefully, Catastrophic Altruists, like St. Paul and St. Francis of Assisi, go through painful periods of conversion before assuming their new altruistic personality. The Intermediary type, of which Mahatma Gandhi is an example, includes traits of both previous types...
...else but Dr. Albert Schweitzer...
...feel that Jesus would approve more wholeheartedly the selfless service to humanity of such a man as Dr. Albert Schweitzer . . . than He would Billy's personable brand of high-powered evangelism...
...Oslo to accept his 1952 Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, 79, saintly medical missionary of French Equatorial Africa, stood in a shiny old black suit and eloquently pointed a way to peace for distinguished listeners, including Norway's King Haakon VII. His message: man can abolish war only through a revival of the same ethical spirit which lifted Europe from the Dark Ages. Said Schweitzer: "Man has become a superman . . . because he not only disposes of innate physical forces, but because he is in command, thanks to the conquests of science and technique, of latent forces in nature...