Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology

Cover......Page 1
Cover......Page 2
Title Page......Page 5
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Editor's Note......Page 13
A Modern Man's Quest For The Holy Grail......Page 15
Key To The Sources......Page 25
Dissonance and Harmony......Page 31
Realistic Thinking......Page 32
A Plea -for Thought......Page 33
A Deeper Rationalism......Page 34
A Necessary Rationalism......Page 35
A Theory of the Universe......Page 36
What Do I Think?......Page 37
Through Knowledge to Religion......Page 38
Historical Instinct......Page 39
Life Without Thought......Page 40
The Man of Today......Page 41
Contempt for Thinking......Page 42
The Ideals We Need......Page 43
Modern Thought Has No God......Page 44
The Divorce of Science and Reflection......Page 45
The Tragedy of Western Thought......Page 46
Mistrust of Thought......Page 47
The Enigma of Creative Force......Page 48
Despair of Intellectual Knowledge......Page 49
Reason the Only Method......Page 50
Christianity Needs Thought......Page 51
Quench Not the Spirit......Page 52
Thought Renews Faith......Page 53
Stoicism......Page 54
Always Something New......Page 55
Negroes Are Deeper than We......Page 56
Enthusiastic Thought......Page 57
Faith in Truth......Page 58
Inherent Truth......Page 59
Truth Must Be Won......Page 60
The Painful Struggle for Truth......Page 61
The Philosophy of Values......Page 62
The Valley of Reality......Page 63
The Progress of Truth......Page 64
The Other Artist in Us......Page 65
Poet and Painter......Page 66
The Rivalry of the Arts......Page 67
Complex Emotions......Page 68
The Accident of Speech......Page 69
The Inexpressible Speaks......Page 70
The Tragedy of Music......Page 71
Pure and Representative Music......Page 72
Beethoven, the Poet......Page 73
Goethe, the fainter......Page 74
The Nenjo and the Old......Page 75
The Idea Always Conquers......Page 76
All Unfolding Is a Kind of Withering......Page 77
Subjective and Objective Art......Page 78
A Collective Soul......Page 79
Bach, the End of an Epoch......Page 80
Bach's Humility......Page 81
Unconscious Greatness......Page 82
Art Was Bach's Religion......Page 83
This Is Holy Ground......Page 84
Interpreting Bach's Spirit......Page 85
Intellectualism and Ethics......Page 87
Word and Deed......Page 88
Monastic Religions......Page 89
Jesus and the Indian Religions......Page 90
Incomplete Compassion......Page 91
Buddha's Broad-mindedness......Page 92
Buddha and Paul......Page 93
Redemption in Buddha and Luther......Page 94
Hinduism, a Religion of Compromise......Page 95
Gandhi Mixes the Spiritual and the Worldly......Page 96
I
 Carry My Cave with Me......Page 97
Indies Gift to the World......Page 98
Mysticism Is Timeless......Page 99
Christianity and the Religions of Chvna......Page 100
Pacifism in China......Page 101
The Characteristics of Islam......Page 102
Islam as a World Religion......Page 103
Not Biographies, but Gospels......Page 104
Hate, the Biographer......Page 105
The Study of the Life of Jesus......Page 106
Its Jesus Is Not Alive......Page 107
The Nonexistent Jesus......Page 108
Making Jesus Conform......Page 109
The Eternal in Jesus......Page 110
The World-negating Spirit of Jesus......Page 111
Jesus Teaches Active Love......Page 112
The Imposing Personality of Jesus......Page 113
The Piety of Jesus......Page 114
A Stranger to Our Time......Page 115
As One Unknown He Comes......Page 116
Living Truth......Page 117
The Eschatological Expectation......Page 118
Paul and Hellenism......Page 119
Unworldliness in the World......Page 120
The Power of Paul's Thought......Page 121
The Mystery Religions......Page 122
Eschatology and Immortality......Page 123
The Optimism and Pessimism of Christianity......Page 124
The Chaotic Greatness of Christianity......Page 125
Freedom from the World......Page 126
Redemption......Page 127
Illogical Christianity......Page 128
Theism and Pantheism......Page 129
Profound Naivete......Page 130
Christianity and Primitive Man......Page 131
Ethical Conversion......Page 132
Protestant and Catholic Missions......Page 133
What Christianity Needs......Page 134
The Renewing of Christianity......Page 135
The Vital Knowledge of God......Page 136
Union with God......Page 137
The Idea of the Kingdom......Page 138
Manifesting the Power of the Kingdom......Page 139
Religion and Civilization......Page 140
God Alone Brings the Kingdom......Page 141
The Coming of the Kingdom......Page 142
By Works of Love......Page 143
The Miracle of the Spirit......Page 144
World- and Life-Affirmation......Page 145
World- and Life-Denial......Page 146
Optimism in Religion......Page 147
The Evil in the World......Page 148
Willing the Ideal......Page 149
The Precipice of Pessimism......Page 150
The Impossibility of World-Negation......Page 151
The Meaning of Life......Page 152
Our Rightful Place in the Universe......Page 153
This Vale of Tears......Page 154
The Sacrifice of Life......Page 155
The Ideal of Perfection......Page 156
Lost Youth......Page 157
Youthful Idealism......Page 158
The Power of Ideals......Page 159
Human Values......Page 160
The Duty of Humanity......Page 161
Thought and Discipline......Page 162
Man Is Always Man......Page 163
Human Personality May Endure......Page 164
The Demoralization of the Modern Man......Page 165
Mutual Knowledge......Page 166
We Are a Secret to Each Other......Page 167
Man Belongs to Man......Page 168
The Strength of Kindness......Page 169
This Is a Harzreise......Page 170
Work and Intellect......Page 171
On through Reality......Page 172
The Meaning of Toil......Page 173
Justice......Page 174
Sharing the Life of the Age......Page 175
Fondness for the Natives......Page 176
The Negro's Notion of Goodness......Page 177
Coals of Fire......Page 178
Ingratitude......Page 179
The Ten Lepers......Page 180
The Spark from Outside......Page 181
Whosoever Shall 
Lose His Life......Page 182
The Threefold Sacrifice......Page 183
Lord, I Am Coming......Page 184
Heroes of Renunciation......Page 185
The Responsibility of Self-Sacrifice......Page 186
The Hidden Forces of Goodness......Page 187
Underground Idealism......Page 188
Forgiveness......Page 189
Work Done in Faith......Page 190
Love and Knowledge......Page 191
The Mystery of Power......Page 192
The Rights of Man......Page 193
The Right to Circulate Freely......Page 194
The Right to Free Work......Page 195
The Right to Natural Social Organization......Page 196
Overwork......Page 197
Independence......Page 198
Colonization and Civilization......Page 199
Where Nature Is Everything......Page 200
Social Problems in the Forest......Page 201
The Negro Is a Free Man......Page 202
Compulsory Labor......Page 203
At the Expense of the Future......Page 204
Education and Industry......Page 205
Social Problems Produced by Imports......Page 206
The Problem of Polygamy......Page 207
Polygamy and Immorality......Page 209
The Rule of the Whites......Page 211
The Elder Brother......Page 212
Moral Authority......Page 213
The Danger of Moral Ruin......Page 214
Moral Controls......Page 216
The Cause of the World War......Page 217
The Traveler Ant......Page 218
Ten Men Killed Already......Page 219
Truth Knows No Arrogance......Page 220
The Machine and Social Problems......Page 221
The Transformation of Society......Page 222
The Advance Guard......Page 223
Civilization Is Progress......Page 225
Does Everything Serve Progress?......Page 226
The Crisis of Civilization......Page 227
Our Doomed Civilization......Page 228
Our Degeneration......Page 229
The Senility of Civilization......Page 230
Christianity and Civilization......Page 231
External or Internal Regeneration......Page 232
The Will-to-Progress......Page 233
The Ideals of True Civilization......Page 234
Reconstruction......Page 235
The Purpose of Life......Page 237
Naivete......Page 238
Dualism in Religion......Page 239
The Contagion of Devotion......Page 240
When Thinking Was 'Religious......Page 241
The Spiritual Advance of Mankind......Page 242
When Our Age Began......Page 243
A Religion That Utters No Commands......Page 244
The Defeat of Religion......Page 245
Knowledge and Power May frove Fatal......Page 246
The Tasks of the Spirit......Page 247
Spiritual Self-Reliance......Page 248
Shall We Make or Suffer History?......Page 249
The Perfect World-View......Page 250
Mystical Knowledge and Faith......Page 251
Christian Mysticism......Page 252
Ethical Mysticism......Page 253
The Unanswered Question......Page 254
The Higher Mysticism......Page 255
I
 Am in Christ......Page 256
The Spirit of Christ......Page 257
The Inner Essence of Paul's Mysticism......Page 258
Mysticism and Everyday Piety......Page 259
God-Mysticism......Page 260
Bach's Mysticism......Page 261
The Danger of Mysticism......Page 262
Mysticism and Ethics......Page 263
Reason and Goodness......Page 264
Resignation......Page 265
The Progress of Ethics......Page 266
Piirposeless Activity......Page 267
Absolute Ethics......Page 268
Justice and Love......Page 269
Living Ethics......Page 270
The Spiritual Humanizing of Mankind......Page 271
Deeds Instead of Words......Page 272
Dives and Lazarus......Page 273
Individual and Social Ethics......Page 274
Charity at Home and Abroad......Page 275
The Will-to-Live......Page 276
The Impulse to Perfection......Page 278
What Knowledge Tells Me......Page 279
Know Thyself......Page 280
Triumph over Circumstances......Page 281
Sincerity......Page 282
Life Is a Trust......Page 283
The Boundless Ocean......Page 284
The Light That Shines in Darkness......Page 285
The Unfinished Cathedral......Page 286
I Live -for Other Life
......Page 287
The Driving Force of the Ethical......Page 288
Pure Religious Feeling......Page 289
Shadows......Page 290
Taking the World as It Is......Page 291
All Ye Are Brethren......Page 292
Identity with Life......Page 293
Reverence and 'Resignation......Page 294
Losing One's LifeThe ethic......Page 295
Widening the Circle of Ethics......Page 297
Universal Ethics......Page 298
The Solidarity of Life......Page 299
True Ethics Are World-Wide......Page 300
Truth Is Always Ridiculed......Page 301
Thou Shalt Not Kill
......Page 302
Sympathy with Animals......Page 303
The Humane Treatment of Animals......Page 304
Animal Suffering......Page 305
The Boundlessness of Ethics......Page 306
The Law of Necessity......Page 307
The Ethics of the Flock......Page 308
A Complete Ethic......Page 309
The Lord Whose Name Is Pain......Page 311
The Joy of Work......Page 312
Appeal to Sympathy......Page 313
A Brother to All Who Suffer......Page 314
The Fellowship of Those Who Bear the Mark of Pain......Page 315
Burden and Blessing......Page 316
Confidence In the Future......Page 317
The Truth 1$ Always Gain......Page 318
Art Teaches Psychology......Page 319
The Music of the Little Courts......Page 320
Bach and the Chorale......Page 321
Widor on Organ Playing......Page 322
The Conquest of the Spirit of the World......Page 323
The Task of the Whites......Page 324
Historical Realities......Page 325
The Superman......Page 326
The Unholy Use of Might......Page 327
We Have Squandered Our Inheritance......Page 328
The Beginning of the End......Page 329
To Be Other Than the World......Page 330
Troublesome Conflicts......Page 331
A Wise Ignorance......Page 332
We Need a Liberal Church......Page 333
Profound Thinking Becomes Religious......Page 334
The Doctrine of Forgiveness......Page 335
We Must Forgive
......Page 336
Love Issues Absolute Commands......Page 337
The Little Task......Page 338
A Free Man......Page 339
Retrospect and Prospect......Page 340
Biographical Data......Page 343
Index Of Titles......Page 371
Index Of Subjects......Page 379