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The story of Schweitzer is the story of one of the truly great men of our time—one who has lived his life for others. His boyhood was not unusual except that he showed a great talent for music, and at nine, was playing the organ in his father's church.
At thirty, he was giving Bach concerts in many countries. He had degrees in philosophy and theology and was head of a college of a large university. He gave up all this to study medicine and then went to a remote village on the Ogowe River in French Equatorial Africa. There, in a suffocating little converted chicken house, he set up a one-bed hospital and began his life of service to the natives. His work was vigorous, practical and exciting. A patient might be a boatman mauled by a hippopotamus or a leper.
Characteristic of the man is the fact that he used his $30,000 Nobel Peace Prize money to combat leprosy. His reverence for life is apparent throughout his amazing story.
—from the book
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