Four Minute Essays, Volume X

by Frank Crane

Four Minute Essays

By
Dr. Frank Crane

Volume X

Wm. H. Wise & Co., Inc.
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Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen
By Dr. Frank Crane

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE [The Unconquerable] 5 [Kingdom Come] 10 [The Humanities Versus the Ideals] 14 [Precedent] 18 [There is no Laboring Class] 22 [The Path to Perfection] 26 [The Ideal Woman] 30 [No] 34 [Time] 38 [Salesmanship] 42 [The Inward Song] 46 [Idleness the Mother of Progress] 51 [Self-Cure] 56 [Personal Influence] 61 [Money-Makers] 66 [The Supreme Moment] 71 [Efficiency] 76 [A Dull Day] 79 [The Little God of Happy Endings] 83 [The Art of Happy Memory] 88 [Subconscious Fears] 92 [Laying Up] 96 [Human Flies] 101 [Keep Fit] 106 [The Spiritual Steam-Roller] 110 [Heaven] 114 [The Best of Life] 118 [Use and Beauty] 122 [The Ethics of Controversy] 126 [Letting Things Alone] 131 [The Pleasures of Outlawry] 135 [Justice] 138 [Index] 143

THE UNCONQUERABLE

Reporters in the war-smitten countries of Europe tell us that one effect of the horrors of death, wounds, and heartbreak is that the men are turning back to the churches. Out of the obscene muck of materialistic force is springing a revaluation of the spirit in man.

Man is a curious animal. He seems to give forth his finest product only when crushed. We expect him to “curse God and die,” and suddenly his face lights up with the heavenly vision.