“No thoughtful person can fail to recognize the fact that each generation produces a few men and women of such outstanding personality that they come into life seemingly, as did Melchizedek, without father and mother and without family. They stand somewhat aloof from their generation and no one thinks of them in connection with a human background, but only as isolated individuals who, called to a certain order of service, have no rest of mind until they have accomplished the task which was set before them, and who pass out of this world with few to mourn their loss and none to whom their going seems to cause acute pain. Their instinct was to keep free of human ties and to be under the control of none save that inner voice which has been the arbiter of their destiny.”
- “George Hunter: Apostle of Turkestan” by Mildred Cable & Francesca French
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