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Four Minute Essays By Dr. Frank Crane: 101 total pages.

and the physically strong survive, all this is true only up to a certain point. It is true of tigers and tomcats; it is not true of human beings. When Man appeared, in the history of evolution, he brought another element into the arena, the Moral element. FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 19 Not to reckon with this Moral power is not to be a scientist, but a half-scientist. The German mind is half-scientific. That is what ails it. It conceives that the final triumph will rest with "the big blond beast," with the men of muscle and ferocity, with those who thrust aside all motives of pity and gentleness and concentrate on ma­terial force. The saying that "God is on the side of the strongest battalions," is a sample of this half-reasoning. God is on the side of truth, honor, hu­maneness, and love; and in the end these gen­tle powers shall overcome. That is what Jesus meant when He said that "the meek shall inherit the earth." And that is what the half-baked mind sneers at, neither indeed can believe. But just the same, Civilization means the 20 FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS

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