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THIS book makes large demands on the reader, who is left to discover for himself the real eminence of Schweitzer alike as preacher or theologian, as musician, as doctor and as philosopher. In spite of the wealth of material for a romantic and heroic biography, there is little of the wide appeal of Schweitzer's narratives of his work in Lam-baréné—“On the Edge of the Primaeval Forest” and “More from the Primæval Forest”. Apart altogether from the interest which any such attempt to face the fundamental problems of civilisation, to relate ethical and moral with material progress and values must possess, a rare and unmistakable honesty pervades the book which should give it added interest to the scientific worker. Here is a man of fourfold eminence facing frankly some of the fundamental problems of this generation, and, in his exposition of philosophy, giving us the clue to the understanding of the preacher, the musician, the physician.
My Life and Thought: an Autobiography.
By Albert Schweitzer. Translated by C. T. Campion. Pp. 288 + 8 plates. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1933.) 10s. 6d. net.
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B., R. My Life and Thought: an Autobiography . Nature 131, 785 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131785b0
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