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In his book, "Out of my life and thought" Albert Schweitzer recalls the afternoon in a boat at Lambarene, where he first conceived his guiding philosophy, "Reverence for Life". The staggering implications of such a seemingly innocuous generality still confront us today...and perhaps more than ever with recent discoveries at the sub-atomic level in quantum physics. But when I buried my dad, it came to me that all the contempt I have for anything military was compromised somewhat. I thought that day of Arlington, when the historic burial rites of the US Army had such a profound effect upon me. Schweitzer's Creed The doctor would have smiled, I think, in reverie off Lambarene's shores, to field a posthumous dream-- to learn dry atoms' call to other worlds can reach and penetrate those alien shells with marching cadences. How so like Blake!...who found his universe within a grain of sand, for science stops in awe where life begins-- for it begins forever. Small boats and yes, quixotic ideologies will never let us be; old lives give way as sandbars to the river; the old doctor takes his bow, steps into history and smiling still, bequeaths a still more monstrous God of life where even Alpha and Omega yield to immortality! ~
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