CONCLUSION
For four years and a half we worked in Lambarene, but in the last of
them we were able to spend the hot, rainy months between autumn and
spring at the seaside. A white man who pitied my almost utterly
exhausted wife put at our disposal, at the mouth of the Ogowe, two
hours from Cape Lopez, a house which before the war had been the home
of the man who watched his timber floats when they lay at anchor, but
which had been empty since the trade came to a standstill. We shall
never forget his kindness. Our principal food was herrings, which I
caught in the sea. Of the abundance of fish in Cape Lopez Bay it is
difficult for any one to form an adequate idea.
[Sidenote: Last months in Africa]
Around the house stood the huts in which the white man's labourers had
lived when the trade was in full swing. Now, half ruined, they served
as sleeping places for negroes who passed through. On the second day
after our arrival I went to see whether there was any one in them, but
no one answered my calls. Then I opened the doors one by one, and in
the last hut saw a man lying on the ground with his head almost buried
in the sand and ants running all over him. It was a victim of sleeping
sickness whom his companions had left there, probably some days before,
because they could not take him any further. He was past all help,
{169} though he still breathed. While I was busied with him I could
see through the door of the hut the bright blue waters of the bay in
their frame of green woods, a scene of almost magic beauty, looking
still more enchanting in the flood of golden light poured over it by
the setting sun. To be shown in a single glance such a paradise and
such helpless, hopeless misery, was overwhelming ... but it was a
symbol of the condition of Africa.
On my return to Lambarene I found plenty to do, but this did not
frighten me. I was fresh and vigorous again. Much of the work was
caused just then by men who were ill with dysentery. Carriers for the
military colony of the Cameroons had been impressed in our district,
and many of them had caught the infection, but subcutaneous injections
of emetin proved very effective even in the oldest cases.
When this levy of carriers was made, one of my patients who had a bad
ulcer on his foot wanted to join as a volunteer, so that his brother,
who had been taken, might not have to go alone. I represented to him
that in three or four days he would fall out and be left on the
roadside, where he would assuredly die. However, he would not let
himself be convinced, and I almost had to use violence to keep him back.
I happened to be present when a body of impressed carriers who were to
be taken to the Cameroons by water were embarked on the river steamer
at N'Gômô. Then the natives began to know by experience what war
really is. The vessel had started amid the wailing of the women; its
trail of smoke had disappeared in the distance, and the crowd had
dispersed, but on a stone on the river bank an old woman whose son had
{170} been taken sat weeping silently. I took hold of her hand and
wanted to comfort her, but she went on crying as if she did not hear
me. Suddenly I felt that I was crying with her, silently, towards the
setting sun, as she was.
About that time I read a magazine article which maintained that there
would always be wars, because a noble thirst for glory is an
ineradicable element in the heart of man. These champions of
militarism think of war only as idealised by ignorant enthusiasm or the
necessity of self-defence. They would probably reconsider their
opinions if they spent a day in one of the African theatres of war,
walking along the paths in the virgin forest between lines of corpses
of carriers who had sunk under their load and found a solitary death by
the roadside, and if, with these innocent and unwilling victims before
them, they were to meditate in the gloomy stillness of the forest on
war as it really is.
* * * * *
[Sidenote: Final results. Why we should help]
How shall I sum up the resulting experience of these four and a half
years? On the whole it has confirmed my view of the considerations
which drew me from the world of learning and art to the primeval
forest. "The natives who live in the bosom of Nature are never so ill
as we are, and do not feel pain so much." That is what my friends used
to say to me, to try to keep me at home, but I have come to see that
such statements are not true. Out here there prevail most of the
diseases which we know in Europe, and several of them--those hideous
ones, I mean, which we brought here--produce, if possible, more misery
than they do amongst us. And the child of nature feels them as we
{171} do, for to be human means to be subject to the power of that
terrible lord whose name is Pain.
Physical misery is great everywhere out here. Are we justified in
shutting our eyes and ignoring it because our European newspapers tell
us nothing about it? We civilised people have been spoilt. If any one
of us is ill the doctor comes at once. Is an operation necessary, the
door of some hospital or other opens to us immediately. But let every
one reflect on the meaning of the fact that out here millions and
millions live without help or hope of it. Every day thousands and
thousands endure the most terrible sufferings, though medical science
could avert them. Every day there prevails in many and many a far-off
hut a despair which we could banish. Will each of my readers think
what the last ten years of his family history would have been if they
had been passed without medical or surgical help of any sort? It is
time that we should wake from slumber and face our responsibilities!
Believing it, as I do, to be my life's task to fight on behalf of the
sick under far-off stars, I appeal to the sympathy which Jesus and
religion generally call for, but at the same time I call to my help
also our most fundamental ideas and reasonings. We ought to see the
work that needs doing for the coloured folk in their misery, not as a
mere "good work," but as a duty that must not be shirked.
Ever since the world's far-off lands were discovered, what has been the
conduct of the white peoples to the coloured ones? What is the meaning
of the simple fact that this and that people has died out, that others
are dying out, and that the condition of others is getting worse and
worse as a result of their discovery by men {172} who professed to be
followers of Jesus? Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties
that in the course of centuries they have suffered at the hands of
Europeans? Who can measure the misery produced among them by the fiery
drinks and the hideous diseases that we have taken to them? If a
record could be compiled of all that has happened between the white and
the coloured races, it would make a book containing numbers of pages,
referring to recent as well as to early times, which the reader would
have to turn over unread, because their contents would be too horrible.
We and our civilisation are burdened, really, with a great debt. We
are not free to confer benefits on these men, or not, as we please; it
is our duty. Anything we give them is not benevolence but atonement.
For every one who scattered injury some one ought to go out to take
help, and when we have done all that is in our power, we shall not have
atoned for the thousandth part of our guilt. That is the foundation
from which all deliberations about "works of mercy" out there must
begin.
It goes without saying that Governments must help with the atonement,
but they cannot do so till there already exists in society a conviction
on the subject. The Government alone can never discharge the duties of
humanitarianism; from the nature of the case that rests with society
and individuals.
The Government can send out as many colonial doctors as it has at its
disposal, and as the colonial budgets are able to pay for. It is well
known that there are great colonising powers which cannot find even
enough doctors to fill the places of those already working in their
colonies, though these are far from sufficient to {173} cope with the
need. So again, we see, the real burden of the humanitarian work must
fall upon society and its individual members. We must have doctors who
go among the coloured people of their own accord and are ready to put
up with all that is meant by absence from home and civilisation. I can
say from experience that they will find a rich reward for all that they
renounce in the good that they can do.
Among the poor people out here they will not as a rule be able to
collect the cost of their own living and work; men must come forward at
home who will provide what is necessary, and that is something that is
due from all of us. But whom shall we get to make a beginning, without
waiting till the duty is universally recognised and acted on?
* * * * *
The Fellowship of those who bear the Mark of Pain. Who are the members
of this Fellowship? Those who have learnt by experience what physical
pain and bodily anguish mean, belong together all the world over; they
are united by a secret bond. One and all they know the horrors of
suffering to which man can be exposed, and one and all they know the
longing to be free from pain. He who has been delivered from pain must
not think he is now free again, and at liberty to take life up just as
it was before, entirely forgetful of the past. He is now a "man whose
eyes are open" with regard to pain and anguish, and he must help to
overcome those two enemies (so far as human power can control them) and
to bring to others the deliverance which he has himself enjoyed. The
man who, with a doctor's help, has been pulled through a severe
illness, must aid in {174} providing a helper such as he had himself,
for those who otherwise could not have one. He who has been saved by
an operation from death or torturing pain, must do his part to make it
possible for the kindly anæsthetic and the helpful knife to begin their
work, where death and torturing pain still rule unhindered. The mother
who owes it to medical aid that her child still belongs to her, and not
to the cold earth, must help, so that the poor mother who has never
seen a doctor may be spared what she has been spared. Where a man's
death agony might have been terrible, but could fortunately be made
tolerable by a doctor's skill, those who stood around his death bed
must help, that others, too, may enjoy that same consolation when they
lose their dear ones.
[Sidenote: The Fellowship of Pain]
Such is the Fellowship of those who bear the Mark of Pain, and on them
lies the humanitarian task of providing medical help in the colonies.
Their gratitude should be the source of the gifts needed. Commissioned
by them, doctors should go forth to carry out among the miserable in
far-off lands all that ought to be done in the name of civilisation,
human and humane.
Sooner or later the idea which I here put forward will conquer the
world, for with inexorable logic it carries with it the intellect as
well as the heart.
But is just now the right time to send it out into the world? Europe
is ruined and full of wretchedness. With all the misery that we have
to alleviate even under our very eyes, how can we think of far-off
lands?
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now--always, and
indeed then most truly when it seems most unsuitable to actual
circumstances. Care for distress at home and care for distress
elsewhere do but help each other if, working together, they wake men in
{175} sufficient numbers from their thoughtlessness, and call into life
a new spirit of humanity.
But let no one say: "Suppose 'the Fellowship of those who bear the Mark
of Pain' does by way of beginning send one doctor here, another there,
what is that to cope with the misery of the world?" From my own
experience and from that of all colonial doctors, I answer, that a
single doctor out here with the most modest equipment means very much
for very many. The good which he can accomplish surpasses a
hundred-fold what he gives of his own life and the cost of the material
support which he must have. Just with quinine and arsenic for malaria,
with novarsenobenzol for the various diseases which spread through
ulcerating sores, with emetin for dysentery, and with sufficient skill
and apparatus for the most necessary operations, he can in a single
year free from the power of suffering and death hundreds of men who
must otherwise have succumbed to their fate in despair. It is just
exactly the advance of tropical medicine during the last fifteen years
which gives us a power over the sufferings of the men of far-off lands
that borders on the miraculous. Is not this really a call to us?
For myself, now that my health, which since 1918 had been very
uncertain, has been restored as the result of two operations, and that
I have succeeded, by means of lectures and organ concerts, in
discharging the debts which I had to incur during the war for the sake
of my work, I venture to resolve to continue my activity among the
suffering folk of whom I have written. The work, indeed, as I began
it, has been ruined by the war. The friends from two nations who
joined in supporting us, have been, alas! deeply divided by what has
{176} happened in the world, and of those who might have helped us
farther, many have been reduced to poverty by the war. It will be very
difficult to collect the necessary funds, which again must be far
larger than before, for the expenses will be three times as heavy,
however modestly I replan our undertaking.
Nevertheless, I have not lost courage. The misery I have seen gives me
strength, and faith in my fellow-men supports my confidence in the
future. I do hope that I shall find a sufficient number of people who,
because they themselves have been saved from physical suffering, will
respond to requests on behalf of those who are in similar need.... I
do hope that among the doctors of the world there will soon be several
besides myself who will be sent out, here or there in the world, by
"the Fellowship of those who bear the Mark of Pain."
ST. NICHOLAS' CLERGY HOUSE,
STRASBOURG.
_August_, 1920.
{177}
INDEX
NDX
ADMINISTRATION, French colonial, 116, 118
African harbours, West, 20
Agriculture, 118
Alcohol, 6, 24, 25, 44, 49, 96, 114, 120, 124, 161
American Mission, 21
Anæmia, 6, 90, 148
Anæsthetics, 66
Analysis, blood, 84
Animals, treatment of, at Dakar, 17
Ant, traveller, 143
Antipyrin, 37
Apoplexy, 66
Appendicitis, 53
"Arrhenal," 90
Arsenic, 90
Arseno-benzol. _See_ Raspberry disease.
Atombogunjo, 158
Atoxyl, 83, 85
_Aucoumea hlaineana_, 109
"Aurora," 150
BACH, 3, 64, 149
Banana, 70, 97, 140
Barolea, 21
Beetle, Bostrichid, 100
Belgian-Congo Railway, 8
Biborate of sodium, 73
Blood analysis, 84
Boehme, Jacob. _See_ "Aurora."
Boils, 69
Books, 148; _see also_ "Aurora."
Bostrichid beetle, 100
Brazzaville, 85
Bromide of potassium, 37, 47
Bruce, 81
Building, raft, 102
CADIER, Mr., 72
Cameroons, 122
Cancer, 53
Cannibalism, 6, 69
Canoe journey, 40
Castellani, 81
Catholic Mission, sixteenth century, 6
Catholic Mission Station, 81
Catholic Missions, the, 166
Cattle, 5, 118
Cause of sleeping sickness, 79
Cayman, 72
Cereals, 5
Chaulmoogra oil, 89; subcutaneous injection of, 89
Chills, 53
Chloral hydrate, 47
Christianity, 153; natives and, 154
Christol, Mr., 26, 61
Cinnamon, 4
Civilisation and colonisation, antagonism of, 117
Civilisation, comparative, 127
Climate, 5, 40, 53
Cloth, 96
Cocoa, 4
Coffee, 4
Coillard, Mr., 145
Colonial administration, French, 116, 118
Colonisation and civilisation, antagonism of, 117
"Company of the Upper Ogowe," 120
Compulsory labour, 118
"Concessions," 119
Conditions of Europeans, 6
Conveyance of sleeping sickness, 83
Coralwood, 109
Crawcraw, 87
DAKAR, 16
De Brazza, 7
Delord, Mr., 89
Dentistry, 55
Dermatol, 37
Difficulties of temporary hospital, 37
Digitalis, 45
Disease, heart, 45; mental, 45
Dishonesty, native, 64, 102, 162
Drink. _See_ alcohol.
Drinking habits, native, 44
Dropsy, 75
Dutton, 81
Dysentery, 36, 62, 90
EATING sores, 88
Ebony, 102
Education, native, 122; of missionaries, 164
Elephantiasis, 36
Elephants, 139, 141
Ellenberger, Mr., 26, 67
Emetin (_Emetinum hydrochloricum_), 91, 169
European imports, 5; influence, 91
Europeans, conditions of, 6; mortality among, 6;
relations between natives and, 130
Evangelical Mission, Paris, 2, 3
Exploration of River Ogowe, 7
Export of timber, 108
Extravagance, native, 77
FANS, 6
Faure, Mr. Felix, 165
Faure, Mrs., 56, 58
Felling and transport of timber, 95
Fernando Vaz, 68
Fetishes, 50, 51
Finance, 3
Fish and Fishing, 49, 168
Food products, 98
Foodstuffs, 151
Ford, Mr., 159
Forest roads, 121, 122
Forest, the virgin, 23, 39
Fourier, 94
_Framboesia_, 87
French colonial administration, 116, 118
GABOON, 4, 6
Galoas, 6
"Gambia fever," 82
Girls, native, 129
_Glossina palpalis_, 42 _n._, 83
Gout, 53
Grand Bassam, 20
Gratitude, native, 66
HABITS, native drinking, 44
Hansen, 88
Harbours, West African, 20
Haug, Mr. (N'Gômô), 52, 109
Heart disease, 45
Hermann, Mr., 69
Hernia, 55, 64, 91
Hippopotami, 41, 43, 56, 57, 72
Hospital (temporary), difficulties of, 37; routine of, 32, 33
Hospital, the, 31, 44, 59; its scope, 78
Housekeeping, 62
Hunting, elephant, 141
Hydrogen peroxide, 73
IMPORTS, European, 5
Industries, native, 124
Influence, European, 91; of war, 167; Portuguese, 70
Insects, 143
Insomnia, 54
Ipecacuanha, 90
Ironwood, 109
Isolation of leprosy, 88
Israelites, 127
Itch (scabies), 36
JACOB BOEHME, 150
Jesuit plantations, 7
Jesus Christ, 93, 127, 155
Jorryguibert, 65
Joseph, 32, 45, 48, 65, 73, 76, 132, 136, 145
KAST, Mr., 27, 31, 60
Kerosene, 114
Kiboko (sjambok), 67
Koch, 81
Konakri,17
LABOUR, compulsory, 118
Labour, native, 20, 31, 78, 95, 111
Labour problem. _See_ Native labour.
Labour, women's, 63
Lambarene, 3, 5, 8, 26, 39, 169
Law, native, 73, 151
Laziness, native, 44, 112
Leboeuf, 81
Leopards, 71
Leprosy, 36, 68, 88
Libreville, 6, 21
Lopez, Cape, 4, 94
Lopez, Odoardo, 7
Lumbar hernia, 65
MAHOGANY, 108
Malaria, 36, 56, 59, 89
Manioc, 70, 97
Martin, 81
Medical science, sleeping sickness and, 82
Medicine men, 35, 48
Medicine, native, 35; tropical, 16
Medicines, prices of, 67
Memory, loss of, 80
Mental disease, 45
Merchandise for natives, 115
Merk's Pyoktanin, 146
Methylen-violet, 146
Mission, American, 21; sixteenth century, Catholic, 6;
nineteenth century, Protestant, 8
Mission school, the, 121, 129, 158, 163
Mission station, Catholic, 81
Mission station, Lambarene, 39
Mission, the, how worked, 159
Missionaries, education of, 164
Missionary Society, Paris, 8
Missions, 153; stations and _personnel_ of, 8; the Catholic,
166; the Protestant, 165
Mollusc, the boring, 109
Monkey flesh, 72, 151
Monogamy, 126
Morel, Mr. and Mrs., 71, 152
Morphia, 47
Mortality among Europeans, 6
Mosquitoes, 60, 83
Mouila, 80
NASTIN, 89
Native attitude towards war, 138, 151; confidence, 36;
dishonesty, 64, 102, 162; drinking habits, 44;
education, 122; extravagance, 77; girls, 129; gratitude, 66;
industries, 124, 161; labour, 20, 31, 78, 95, 111; law,
73, 151; laziness 44, 112; medicine, 35, 36; punishment, 75;
superstitions, 65, 155; unreliability, 29, 63, 135; village, 24, 43
Natives and Europeans, relations between, 130
Natives, and Christianity, 154; merchandise for, 115; taxation of, 114
Nature of sleeping sickness, 83
Navigation, river, 22-26, 41
N'Djôle, 4
N'Gomje, River, 70
N'Gômô, 8, 26
N'Gounje, 78
Nicotine, 54
N'Kendju, 73, 146
OGOWE, district of, 4
Ogowe, River, 2, 4, 23; exploration of, 7
Oil palm, 4, 70, 71
Ojemba, 157
Okoume, 108
_Oleum gynocardiæ_, 89
Omnipon, 92
Operations, 55, 65, 91
Opium, 35
Orungu tribe, 6
Osteomyelitis, 66
PAHOUINS, 6
Palm, oil, 4, 70, 71
Paris Evangelical Mission, 2, 3
Paris Missionary Society, 8
Pepper, 4
Permanganate of potash, 88
_Personnel_ of missions, stations and, 8
Pineapples, 42
Plantations, Jesuit, 7
Pleurisy, 53
Pneumonia, 53
Poison, 47, 48
Polygamy, 126
Portuguese influence, 70
Potassium, bromide of, 37, 47
Potatoes, 5, 70, 151
Prices, 137
Prices of medicine, 67
Products, food, 98
Protestant Mission, nineteenth century, 8
Protestant missions, the, 165
Punishment, native, 75
Pyorrhoea, 55
QUININE, 37, 56, 90
RAFT building, 102
Railway, Belgian-Congo, 8
Rambaud, Mr., 64
Raspberry disease, 87
Rheumatism, 53, 80
Rice, 5
River navigation, 22-26, 41
River N'Gomje, 70
River Ogowe, 2, 23
Roads, forest, 121, 122
Robert, Mr., 131
Rosewood, 109
Rousseau, 155
Routine of hospital (temporary), 32, 33
Rubber, 4
_Rynchoprion penetrans_, 86
SALOL, 37
Samkita, 8, 71
Sandfleas, 86
Sangunagenta, 87
Scabies (itch), 36
School, the Mission, 121, 129, 163
Schools, mission, 158
Sciatica, 80
Scopolamin, 47
Scorpions, 143
Senegambia, 16
Serval, Lieutenant, 7
Skulls (for fetishes), 51
Slavery, 6, 69
Sleeping sickness, 36, 62, 78, 81; and medical science, 82;
cause of, 79; conveyance of, 83; nature of, 83; symptoms of, 80
Sleeping Sickness Institute, 85
Snakes, 72
Stanley, 98
Stations and _personnel_ of missions, 8
Stilling, Professor, 146
Strohl, Professor, 148
Subcutaneous injection of chaulmoogra oil, 89
Sunstroke, 58, 59
Superstition, native, 65, 155
Symptoms of sleeping sickness, 80
TABOU, 20
Talagouga, 8, 71
Taxation of natives, 114
Teeth, 55, 148
Teneriffe, 13
Termites, 142
Thymol, 55
Timber, export of, 108; trade, 4, 5, 25, 94-100; felling
and transport of, 95-101; varieties of, 108
Tobacco, 49, 54, 96, 114
Traveller ant, 143
Treatment of animals at Dakar, 17
Trees, 39
Tropical medicine, 16
Trypanosomata, 82
Tsetse fly, 42
Tumours, 55
ULCERS, 86, 146
Unreliability, native, 29, 63, 135
VANILLA, 4
Varieties of timber, 108
Village, native, 24, 43
Virgin forest, the, 23, 39
WAR, 136; influence of, 167; native attitude towards, 138, 151
Weaver bird, 72
West African harbours, 20
Whooping-cough, 52
Wife-purchase, 76, 128
Women, diseases of, 55
Women's labour, 63
YAM, 70
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THE PHILOSOPHY OF CIVILIZATION
Dale Memorial Lectures, 1922.
By ALBERT SCHWEITZER
DR.THEOL., D.MED., DR.PHIL. (STRASBOURG).
PART I.
THE DECAY AND
THE RESTORATION
OF CIVILIZATION
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