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This person warned of “gradual moral ruin” from contact with “the child of nature” in On the Edge of the Primeval Forest. This person’s view that a “disordered society” demands “fundamental rights be abridged” informed Lorraine Hansberry’s portrayal of Torvald Neilsen in Les Blancs. This person, who was lionized by W. Eugene Smith’s Life photo-essay “A Man of Mercy,” was quoted by Chinua Achebe as calling the “African” “my junior brother.” (10[1])This man (10[1])lectured on the “problems of peace” and funded a leprosarium after he won the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for a philosophy of “reverence (10[1])for life.” (10[1])In (10[1])his autobiography Out of My Life and Thought, this “great white doctor” described (10[1])treating dysentery at his Paris Missionary Society (10[1])hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon. (10[1])For 10 points, what (-5[1])Alsatian (10[1])theologian wrote The Quest (10[1])of the Historical Jesus? ■END■ (10[2]0[8])

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