![]() The epilogue is full of stirringly Germanic passages such as the following: "Once man begins to think about the mystery of his life and the links connecting him with the life that fills the world, he cannot but accept, for his own life and all other life that surrounds him, the principle of Reverence for Life. ![]() The chapter called "I Resolve to Become a Jungle Doctor" is a model of Rilke-style life-changing decision and the chapters on Bach and on organs are full of fascinating historical and mechanical detail.įor contemporary readers, "Out of My Life and Thought" may be most compelling for its epilogue, which describes the ethical mysticism that Schweitzer called "Reverence for Life," which he achieved in his later years. The chapters about how he came to write "The Quest for the Historical Jesus" and "The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle" are indispensable summaries of and apologies for those books ![]() Schweitzer's autobiography is a masterful and motley blend of confession, narrative, adventure, and philosophy. ![]() "Out of My Life and Thought" is the autobiography of Albert Schweitzer, the theologian, musician, scientist, and medical missionary who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952 (and donated his prize to build a leper colony). ![]()
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