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Sunday, September 28, 2025

Albert Schweitzer - Laureate for Peace, 1952 - acceptance comments -- Nobel Prize, Oslo, Norway

 "The spirit is not dead;

it lives in isolation.  It

has overcome the difficulty

of having to exist in a world

out of harmony with its

ethical character.  It has come

to realize that it can find 

no home other than in the

basic nature of man. . .

It is convinced that compassion,

in which ethics takes root,

does not assume its true proportions

until it embraces not only man but

every living being.  To the old

ethics, which lacked this depth

and force of conviction, has been

added the ethics of

reverence for life,

and its validity is steadily gaining

in recognition."

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