More from the Primeval Forest
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two octavo volumes; as this has been translated into English, we gather that it is a book of some consequence. Yet, he has dragged himself away from all his interests in Europe and devoted a valuable part of his life to medical missionary work in equatorial Africa. Such a man must be either a restless crank or a true altruist, and, as it is obvious from his writings that Dr. Schweitzer is not the former, he must be the latter. Between 1913 and 1917 he established a hospital at Lambarene in the French Congo, but circumstances, bis health and, we presume, the War, necessitated his leaving Africa in 1917. He returned in 1924 to take up the work which he had been compelled to leave.
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