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  1. Mar 2021
    1. Schweitzer, the pastor's son, grew up in this exceptional environment of religious tolerance, and developed the belief that true Christianity should always work towards a unity of faith and purpose.

      This gives us a lot insight. Being a pastor's son he was forced to grow up in Christian environment. I think this is what brought him to get into philosophy.

    2. In addition to injuries, he was often treating severe sandflea and crawcraw sores, framboesia (yaws), tropical eating sores, heart disease, tropical dysentery, tropical malaria, sleeping sickness, leprosy, fevers, strangulated hernias, necrosis, abdominal tumours and chronic constipation and nicotine poisoning, while also attempting to deal with deliberate poisonings, fetishism and fear of cannibalism among the Mbahouin.

      This a whole lot of things him and wife were treating. It is also crazy that were assisting over 2,000 patients.

    3. There was great demand for a German edition, but, instead of translating it, he decided to rewrite it.[

      He wrote two volumes, this tells us he was astonished by them yet he had more too say

    1. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.

      Keeps proving what justice is and how much it means to him